What Sound Does An Ant Make?

Ant language sounds wacky—and can be hacked.
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Paper on Beetles Mimicking Ant Sounds:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0130541
Di Giulio A, Maurizi E, Barbero F, Sala M, Fattorini S, Balletto E, et al. (2015) The Pied Piper: A Parasitic Beetle’s Melodies Modulate Ant Behaviours. PLoS ONE 10(7): e0130541. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0130541

Paper on Paussus favieri Behavior:
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/psyche/2012/940315/
Emanuela Maurizi, Simone Fattorini, Wendy Moore, and Andrea Di Giulio, “Behavior of Paussus favieri(Coleoptera, Carabidae, Paussini): A Myrmecophilous Beetle Associated with Pheidole pallidula (Hymenoptera, Formicidae),” Psyche, vol. 2012, Article ID 940315, 9 pages, 2012. doi:10.1155/2012/940315

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Mark Gartsbeyn, Anna Rothschild

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Janet DiFilippo

Camera, Sound
Gil Kaplan

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Original Footage
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FOOTAGE AND STILLS

Ant Licking Video & Beetle with Queen
© 2012 Emanuela Maurizi et al.

Additional Images of Ants
Courtesy Dr. Andrea Di Giulio

Ant-Man Gif
Ant-Man (2015) Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

SFX

Cockroaches
Freesound/StateAardvark­
(used with permission from author)

Squeak Pack/squeak_10
Freesound/Corsica_S

Ant Sounds
© 2015 Di Giulio et al.

Wink
Freesound/Bennychico11

Cough Cough Sniff Sniff
Freesound/Harrypeeks

Sipping A Juice Box
Freesound/Trundlefly

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