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Humans Aren’t Alone, Ants Freeload on Others Too

The evolutionary idea of “social parasitism” explains how social parasites exploit existing communal networks of one’s own species.

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Devrupa Rakshit
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Oct 5, 2021
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AuthorDevrupa Rakshit

Devrupa Rakshit is an Associate Editor at The Swaddle. She is a lawyer by education, a poet by accident, a painter by shaukh, and autistic by birth. You can find her on Instagram @devruparakshit.

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