{"id":181,"date":"2019-10-24T10:59:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T15:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-smail-gallery\/?page_id=181"},"modified":"2023-11-05T09:57:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T15:57:38","slug":"20182019-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/smail-gallery\/pastexhibits\/20182019-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ants: Alien Civilizations Among Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alexander Wild<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/smail-gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/435\/Ants2-1024x453.jpg\" alt=\"Ants: Alien Civilizations Among Us by Alexander Wild\" class=\"wp-image-174\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/smail-gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/435\/Ants2-1024x453.jpg 1024w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/smail-gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/435\/Ants2-300x133.jpg 300w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/smail-gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/435\/Ants2-768x340.jpg 768w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/smail-gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/435\/Ants2.jpg 1956w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/smail-gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/435\/Ants3-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"Ants: Alien Civilizations Among Us by Alexander Wild\" class=\"wp-image-175\" title=\"Ants: Alien Civilizations Among Us by Alexander Wild\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/smail-gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/435\/Ants3-300x164.jpg 300w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/smail-gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/435\/Ants3-768x419.jpg 768w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/smail-gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/435\/Ants3-1024x559.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"124\" src=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/smail-gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/435\/Ants1-300x124.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/smail-gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/435\/Ants1-300x124.jpg 300w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/smail-gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/435\/Ants1-768x317.jpg 768w,  https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/smail-gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/435\/Ants1-1024x423.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why Study Ants?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like humans, ants use social behavior to make their way in a hostile world.&nbsp; They communicate to find food, collaborate to build structures, and interact with each other to meet challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike humans, there are 20,000 species of ants, each with a unique way of forming a civilization.&nbsp; Ants have created thousands of seemingly alien societies right here on earth, visible to anyone willing to pause and watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alex Wild is the Curator of Entomology at the University of Texas at Austin and holds a Ph.D. in Entomology from the University of California\/Davis.\u00a0 A lifelong fascination with natural history has taken him on a varied career around the world.\u00a0 Alex has taught beekeeping with the Peace Corps in Paraguay; lead tropical insect photography tours in Central and South America, and conducted academic research on the evolutionary relationships of beetles, wasps, and ants.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Wild Why Study Ants? 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