From this article:
Quite the clever little ant, eh?
The animal kingdom gets it! 
So there you go.
Here you are takling about how important you men are in the role of propagating the species.....EVOLUTION of these ants shows that hey, males might not even be necessary in many years to come!
So next time you ask us to fetch you a beer or a sandwich, just think, if all the women in the world were one day to revolt.....you all could be replaced with a petrie dish.
Although I, personally, wouldn't really like to see men go....I rather like the services a man's able to perform....though don't quote me on that
In our world, males are rather essential to the survival of the species. But ants can get along just fine without them.
Scientists have discovered that one species of tropical ant is exclusively female.
Young are produced by cloning the queen, and the babies are always girls.
Scientists have discovered that one species of tropical ant is exclusively female.
Young are produced by cloning the queen, and the babies are always girls.
Reproduction without sex is fairly common in the ant world, but the Mycocepurus smithii is the first known to have dispensed with males altogether.
The phenomenon takes the stress out of finding a mate and may help keep the peace in colonies, the scientists believe.
They were first drawn to Mycocepurus smithii by its skill at cultivating various different fungal crops for food. Closer inspection raised questions about the ants' sex life, or lack of it.
Anna Himler, of the University of Arizona, said: 'When we started to study this species more closely, we just weren't finding any males.
The phenomenon takes the stress out of finding a mate and may help keep the peace in colonies, the scientists believe.
They were first drawn to Mycocepurus smithii by its skill at cultivating various different fungal crops for food. Closer inspection raised questions about the ants' sex life, or lack of it.
Anna Himler, of the University of Arizona, said: 'When we started to study this species more closely, we just weren't finding any males.

So there you go.
Here you are takling about how important you men are in the role of propagating the species.....EVOLUTION of these ants shows that hey, males might not even be necessary in many years to come!
So next time you ask us to fetch you a beer or a sandwich, just think, if all the women in the world were one day to revolt.....you all could be replaced with a petrie dish.

Although I, personally, wouldn't really like to see men go....I rather like the services a man's able to perform....though don't quote me on that

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