While studying termites (
Macrotermes bellicosus)
in Africa’s Ivory Coast in the late 1990s, animal behavior researcher
Wolfgang Kirchner noticed something peculiar as he observed the insects’
colonial mound: “At first, I heard a noise which seemed to move across
the surface,” he recalls. “I could really hear it because in that
species, and in this place, there were lots of soldiers on the surface
of the nest. Then I could see waves of drumming [propagating] across the
surface.” [
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