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Poll Question: Do ants become more copious when you put them into a fridge?
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Originally posted by Guzzman Guzzman wrote:

Chuck Norris the Anteater?

No, Chuck Norris the Aardvark, I think.  Which, by the way, sounds cooler than Anteater.


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Chuck Norris the Anteater?
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But is there anything cooler than a cooler?
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What about it? It's cool, isn't it?
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What about the refrigerant?



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No they wouldn't, because there can't be any ants in an empty fridge!
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It depends upon your concept of empty - in a truly empty fridge they would die of asphyxiation.
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I thought you're supposed to put them in an empty fridge. Confused
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I think you'll find that footprints in the butter are a dead give-away.
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Even if the ants told you that the light goes out, would you have any reason to believe them? In fact, how do you know the ants and the fridge even exist?

If I imagine putting ants in the fridge, do they become more copious? What if I've misunderstood the terms 'ants' and 'fridge', so that when I think I'm putting ants in the fridge I'm really putting golf balls in the hat?


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I wonder if they'd be able to tell you if the light goes out when the door shuts?
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It depends on how copious they are in the first place, I would guess.  What if the ants are so copious that  the fridge could do nothing to increase their copiousness.  Is that even possible?
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Don't put your aunt's in a fridge, that's not cool.  Oh, wait a second, actually it is.  You must have a walk in or something.
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If you put them in the fridge first and then in the freezer, you'll get copious crunchy ants. Big%20smile
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Originally posted by Guzzman Guzzman wrote:

Well, of course they get more copious in the fridge, because in the cold they tend to snuggle a lot more and everybody knows where that leads to!
But I could be wrong of course!
It sure isn't cruelty against animals to put them in the fridge, e.g. for turtles it is a great way to hibernate in a fridge. Just don't put them into the freezer!

Freezer makes ants nice and crunchy, mmm.
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Insects metabolism slows down when their body temperature drops and they become inactive, so I can only assume that it is when you remove them from the fridge they get frisky and start increasing the size of the colony. This possibly mimics the winter/spring cycle within the terrarium and they get more numerous in readiness for the increased food supply in spring.

But why would anyone want to purposefully increase the number of ants in this world?
 
Better to stop them breading than to invest in thousands of tiny ant-traps, which everyone knows are useless because the ant just chews it's leg off and escapes on the remaining five.Confused
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Well, of course they get more copious in the fridge, because in the cold they tend to snuggle a lot more and everybody knows where that leads to!
But I could be wrong of course!
It sure isn't cruelty against animals to put them in the fridge, e.g. for turtles it is a great way to hibernate in a fridge. Just don't put them into the freezer!
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