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Le ministère de l’Intérieur a révélé ce lundi qu’un incident de sécurité avait touché Agence nationale des titres sécurisés, organisme chargé notamment des cartes d’identité, passeports et permis de conduire. L’alerte a été détectée le 15 avril. Selon les premières constatations, des données personnelles d’usagers pourraient avoir été compromises. Sont évoqués les noms, prénoms, adresses […]
Large harvester ants will allow smaller cone ants to groom and clean them, but we're not entirely sure why.
A Chinese national was arrested at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta International Airport carrying 5,000 giant queen ants — _Messor cephalotes_ , a species prized in the exotic pet trade at $220 per ant. The ants were packed into test tubes stuffed with cotton wool, each tube sealed to keep its cargo alive for the journey. — Read the rest
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Some caterpillars have cracked the password to an ant colony — what Rachelle Adams, an evolutionary biologist at Ohio State University, calls "well-defended fortresses." Species in the butterfly family Lycaenidae drum out vibrations that match the beat patterns of their host colonies, fooling the ants into carrying them inside and raising them as their own, according to a study published…