Ants prefer salty snacks to sweet stuff
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 17:21
in Biology & Nature
Ants have less of a sweet tooth and more of a preference for salty snacks, at least when they live in salt-poor areas far from the ocean, a new study finds.
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