Invasive ants are a huge problem in Australia, but a classic computer game could help solve it
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Australia's national science agency CSIRO and the University of Western Australia have used Age of Empires to simulate ant warfare, to figure out how to help native ant species fight their invasive counterparts.
"Ants are one of the few groups of animal species in which warfare resembles human warfare, in terms of scale and mortality," researcher Samuel Lymbery said.
Using the game, the research team built armies and battlegrounds of different sizes and shapes and watched them fight, then mapped the results.
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Have they tried SimAnt?
Watch out for the antlion pits!
Oh god I'm having flashbacks, I forgot about the antlions!
The game gave me arachnophobia with the fucking close up of the spiders
Man… i loved this game… didn’t know what I was doing though
Geez… I am old