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Bellowing "get off my land" at a trespassing ant will do no good at all. You'd do better to get right up close and whisper, Philip Ball finds.

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  1. Hickling, R. & Brown, R. L. Analysis of acoustic communication by ants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 108, 1920 - 1929 2000.

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Ball, P. Close encounters. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news001019-1

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