Interesting from nature.

Turns out ants don't like to work.
We believed them so much and gave them an example, but it turns out the ants have been deceiving us all along. They're just as lazy as we are.

It turned out that only 2.6% of ants are constantly working, i.e. they behave in the same way as ants should. 70% worked only half the time, then started to simulate activity. And 25% did nothing at all, just wandering around aimlessly.

At first, scientists decided that the work of ants is shifting or that part of the ants have functions hidden from the eyes. But no, experiments have shown that a quarter of the ants, figuratively speaking, sit on a sofa with beer and click the remote. And they are fed and not driven away. It also turned out that the lazy ants have a larger abdomen than the others. And it's no surprise, we see that even in higher primates.

When research continued, new details emerged. If some of the working ants were taken from the colony, the same part of the lazybones suddenly found motivation and went to work.

If the lazybones were taken away, they were not replaced, but new ones were born in their place. At the same time, the lazy colony grew faster than the one where only workaholics were left.

Recently, Arizona researchers, having tracked more than 20 colonies in two years, came to the final conclusion: the lazy are a labor and genetic reserve.

They are fed for the fact that at any loss - a boar on the anthill or something else - they are immediately taken to work, and life continues without interruption.

Scientists have said nothing about people, but now nobody prevents you from lying on the sofa with a beer and realize yourself as an important reserve and the basis of genetic diversity.