Hey bug-lovers. A great new ant video just dropped from SyneAnts. He's just getting his channel going and the video has only 3 views. Why not stop by and say hi?
Ant keeping in NZ is kind of like "hard mode" for the hobby as the islands have only 11 native species due to the recent glacial past. It's a fascinating example of taxonomic radiation in action.
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If New Zealand is a group of isolated island with only a few ants at the start of the adaptive radiation process then Borneo is the opposite. Borneo is the location of maximal ant species diversity globally, while it's also an island the ants of Borneo can be found in surrounding islands and on nearby continents.
What conditions lead to high species diversity for ants?
If we looked into the past were there other locations that might have had even greater diversity?
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