Coronie

Colony?

Colony?

Colony shape

What about the colony transmitters?

Including the colonies of Caprica, Picon... Oh, my God.

Come to think that we were human?

And that lower photo, that's a bird colony that has been boomed.

Caprica and three other colonies.

So this is the colony founded by a queen the previous summer.

It's a museum.

And it's not very big it's about 250 meters on one side, 400 on the other.

And by doing this I know how old they all are.

Really the question that I think about with these ants is what I call task allocation.

This is a logarithmic scale, 10 to the eighth power.

Ferro, take us in low over the main colony complex.

They want to re assert their control over their former colony.

... and that I will protect and defend the sovereignty of the Colonies and that I will protect and defend the sovereignty of the Colonies...

There's some juicy colonists' daughters we have to rescue from their virginity.

I just checked the colony log. Directive dated 6 12 79, signed Burke, Carter J.

That I accept the office of the President of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol...

Get the President on the line. wind howling

There's the nest entrance, there's a pencil for scale.

It could be this year, or this year.

Elosha, there's a 13th colony of humankind, is there not?

Instead, something about the organization must be changing as the colony gets older.

And these ants are called harvester ants because they eat seeds.

And here was the most intriguing result the task allocation.

These are little wells.

They say they have the President of the Colonies aboard.

And I go there every year and look for all the colonies that were alive the year before, and figure out which ones have died, and put all the new ones on the map.

Why do we have programs to build habitation on Mars, and we have programs to look at colonizing the moon, but we do not have a program looking at how we colonize our own planet?

This is about as big as they get, about a meter across.

like I expect to meet another forager every three seconds.

So, an ant starts out somewhere near the queen.

If the colonists found that ship, there's no telling how many have been exposed.

Takes decades. It's what we call a shake'n'bake colony.

There are nest maintenance workers working throughout the nest.

Well, as an ornithologist, I can tell you that birds fly, and that (Laughter) and that booming a bird colony doesn't do it it doesn't do it.

I'm the Vice President of the colony, selected in my own right.

In the meantime, however, as President of the Colonies, I'm giving you a direct order...

So I want to tell you about the life cycle of a colony.

That is, to send more winged queens and males to that year's mating flight.

Then tell him this comes directly from the President of the Twelve Colonies,

Each colony's sending a delegation of leading citizens.