Anting

It’s something that birds do, to get formic acid all over themselves! If you read about it, they say it may even be similar to smoking cigarettes in humans. Just somethiNg to do that’s stimulating.



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“ Anting is a maintenance behaviour during which birds rub insects, usually ants, on their feathers and skin. The bird may pick up the insects in its bill and rub them on the body (active anting), or the bird may lie in an area of high density of the insects and perform dust bathing-like movements (passive anting). The insects secrete liquids containing chemicals such as formic acid, which can act as an insecticide, miticide, fungicide, or bactericide. Alternatively, anting could make the insects edible by removing the distasteful acid, or, possibly supplement the bird's own preen oil. Instead of ants, birds can also use millipedes. More than 200 species of bird are known to ant.[1] A possibly related behaviour, self-anointing, is seen in many mammals.”

Anyways I didn’t know about this and just found out the other day when I was reading about currawongs. Ants are sacred to me because I call myself the anty-Christ, or lord of the ants. No relation to antifa, which is hated among ants for using the word “ant” without permission.