Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-06-14 | Page 28 | Talented Ants

Talented Ants I A French traveler lids discovered anew a-new specIes of ant In Slam or at least a new trait he has never before aeon recorded re-corded The creatures were small of agra a-gra color and lived In damp places They traveled often and In troops which ademed to 10 under tho direction of a commander who rode on horseback JL Meissen the Frenchman who noticed I no-ticed this peculiarity was attracted to these groups by discovering that each company contained a large ant hat traveled trav-eled more rapidly than the others Observing Ob-serving them more closely he noticed that each large ant always carried a small gray ant upon its back though the remainder of the troops were on foot This mounted ant would ride out from the line travel swiftly along the column from head to rear and nppnrently over I look their maneuvers M Meissen concluded con-cluded from what he saw that this species spe-cies of ant while on Its travels Is under tho direction of a commander though such ant horses as the general rides must bo rare and valuable for he scarcely ever found more than one mounted ant In a colony