Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . secureretreat, for they would soon drop offwhen they fell asleep, whereat, with adrowsy air and crestfallen seeming, they THE DAINTINESS OE ANTS. GOO sought more secure positions. Most ofthem were cuddled down upon the sur-face. Some squatted upon their ab-domens; some lay upon their sides; somestood a-tiptoe on their hind legs againstthe glass. Somecrouched upon theearth, piled oneatop of was a con-stant agitation inthe clusters, andfrequent changesof position oc-curred. While the antsof one group weresleeping, oth
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904 . secureretreat, for they would soon drop offwhen they fell asleep, whereat, with adrowsy air and crestfallen seeming, they THE DAINTINESS OE ANTS. GOO sought more secure positions. Most ofthem were cuddled down upon the sur-face. Some squatted upon their ab-domens; some lay upon their sides; somestood a-tiptoe on their hind legs againstthe glass. Somecrouched upon theearth, piled oneatop of was a con-stant agitation inthe clusters, andfrequent changesof position oc-curred. While the antsof one group weresleeping, otherswould be at work,and these wouldstalk among andover the sleepers,vigorously jostlingthem at , new mem-bers occasionallyjoined a group,and in their eager-ness to get closeup to the heat,crowded theirdrowsy comradesaside. Ants atleries would drop period during which individuals were ob-served to sleep is three and a half then with most ants sleep was brokenup into several naps, longer or shorter, byincomers and intruding laborers. We may. Ants giving a friendly Tongue Brush to their Fellows work inthe pellets thethey gal- car-ried, push into a group of sleepers, andpresently themselves be sound rough treatment was invariably re-ceived with good humor, as are likejostlings during waking and workinghours. The fact must be set to the creditof emmet amiability, as—from the stand-point of higher animals at least—the cir-cumstances peculiarly tend to irritate thetemper. Of course, however, some of thesleepers would be aroused. They changedtheir positions a little, or gave them-selves a brief combing, and resumed theirnap—unless, indeed, they were satisfied,in which case they stretched their limbsand yawned in the approved manner ofthe genus homo. The length of time given to sleep va-ries according to circumstances and per-haps temperament. The big-headed sol-diers of the Florida Harvester seem moresluggish than the smaller workers. Theirsleep i
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