There is a research in the society of ants which was done by Hasegawa Eisuke, assistant professor of Hokkaido University. According to the research, Hasegawa considered that there were surely non-working ants in their society. After observing behavior of 150 ants in a nest, he realized that besides about 20% of hard-working ants which did such things like cleaning the nest or finding food , there were still non-working ants which just moved around and did nothing. Then, he gathered the hard-working ants in a group and observed their behaviors. The result was identical with the first one. He ascertained that the percent of non-working ants in 2 researches were same.
According to Hasegawa, the ants couldn't work rather than they didn't work. Their working-switches were only turned on when they were in a definite insufficiency situation such as their nest was getting dirty or food wasn't enough for all. And depending on different sensitivity of every ant, they also look like some lazy one.
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hahaha, it's interesting, lazy bees :D. I think it's same in every society where are non-working and hard-working individuals in together :)
Interesting. I wonder if there are lazy bees too? I'm getting tired of hearing as busy as a bee, so if there are lazy bees, I can say to that person, "Hey, bees are lazy too". LOL