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It’s been about a week since we have installed the twenty brave ants into the space habitat, full of rich nutritious gel. Starting from last Friday, ants gradually became passive, most of their time spending in the holes, but probably sleeping. Little progress has been done in digging the tunnels. To avoid suffocation, additional air-supplies have been provided. However, the added oxygen has not caused an increase in activity. Some observers speculated that ants are expiring!

We believe this is not truth! Quite opposite, the colony is shaken from outrageous behavior of some individuals (inside the habitat). This morning, there has been a fight between two of the more active ants. Probably in a dispute over who will be the first one to dig a new hole, one ant took a bite in another’s hind. To our surprise, the sufferer, probably due to the exhaustion from the fight, unfortunately died. It’s then understandable that these quarrels delay our colony from more organized construction of the under-gel kingdom.

One positive news in the end though: our laboratory has signed an exclusive contract with anTV, so now we can bring you a live video feed from the colony:
Before we arrange the details about the copyrights and to save the bandwidth, image needs to be manually refreshed.

UPDATE: after turning the habitat upside down, ants start to move!

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