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• Saharan_silver_ant abstract "The Saharan silver ant (Cataglyphis bombycina) is a type of ant that lives in the Sahara Desert.Largely due to the extreme high temperatures of their habitat, but also due to the threat of predators, the ants are active outside their nest for only about ten minutes per day. The twin pressures of predation and temperature restrict the above-ground activity to a narrow temperature band between that at which the predatory lizard ceases activity and the ant's own upper threshold.The ants often traverse midday temperatures around 47 degrees Celsius (116 degrees fahrenheit) to scavenge corpses of heat-stricken animals. To cope with such high temperatures, the ant has several unique adaptations. They have longer legs than other ants. This keeps their body away from the hot sand, and when traveling at full speed, they use only four of their six legs. This quadrupedal gait is achieved by raising the front pair of legs.Keeping track of the position of the sun, the ants are able to navigate, always knowing the direct route back to their nest, and thus can minimize their time spent in the heat. They produce heat shock proteins, but unlike other animals they do this not in direct response to heat. Instead they do this before leaving the nest, because they simply are not out in the heat long enough for the proteins to take effect. This protein allows cellular functions to continue even at very high body temperatures. If they did not produce the proteins in anticipation of the extreme heat, they would die before the protein could have its effect. A few scouts keep watch and alert the colony when the ant lizards take shelter in their burrows. Then the whole colony, hundreds of ants, leave to search for food. They must hurry before the temperature reaches 53 degrees celsius (128 degrees Fahrenheit), a temperature capable of killing them. In the words of one researcher, the production of this protein "does not reflect an acute response to cellular injury or protein denaturation, but appears to be an adaptive response allowing the organism to perform work at elevated temperatures during temperature changes too abrupt to give the animal an opportunity to benefit from de novo HSP synthesis," further "the few minutes duration of the foraging frenzy is too short for synthesis of these protective proteins after exposure to heat." This and other adaptations led to the ant being be called "one of the most heat-resistant animals known." Its critical thermal maximum is 128.5°F (53.6°C)".
• Saharan_silver_ant binomialAuthority Julius_Roger.
• Saharan_silver_ant class Insect.
• Saharan_silver_ant family Ant.
• Saharan_silver_ant family Vespoidea.
• Saharan_silver_ant genus Cataglyphis.
• Saharan_silver_ant kingdom Animal.
• Saharan_silver_ant order Apocrita.
• Saharan_silver_ant order Hymenoptera.
• Saharan_silver_ant phylum Arthropod.
• Saharan_silver_ant thumbnail Saharan_Silver_Ants_Erg_Chebbi_2011.jpg?width=300.
• Saharan_silver_ant wikiPageID "17427405".
• Saharan_silver_ant wikiPageRevisionID "599742804".
• Saharan_silver_ant binomial "Cataglyphis bombycina".
• Saharan_silver_ant binomialAuthority "Roger, 1859".
• Saharan_silver_ant classis "Insecta".
• Saharan_silver_ant familia Ant.
• Saharan_silver_ant genus "Cataglyphis".
• Saharan_silver_ant hasPhotoCollection Saharan_silver_ant.
• Saharan_silver_ant imageWidth "280".
• Saharan_silver_ant name "Saharan silver ant".
• Saharan_silver_ant ordo Hymenoptera.
• Saharan_silver_ant phylum "Arthropoda".
• Saharan_silver_ant regnum "Animalia".
• Saharan_silver_ant species "C. bombycina".
• Saharan_silver_ant subordo Apocrita.
• Saharan_silver_ant superfamilia Vespoidea.
• Saharan_silver_ant subject Category:Formicinae.
• Saharan_silver_ant subject Category:Hymenoptera_of_Africa.
• Saharan_silver_ant type Animal.
• Saharan_silver_ant type Eukaryote.
• Saharan_silver_ant type Insect.
• Saharan_silver_ant type Species.
• Saharan_silver_ant type Insect.
• Saharan_silver_ant type Organism.
• Saharan_silver_ant comment "The Saharan silver ant (Cataglyphis bombycina) is a type of ant that lives in the Sahara Desert.Largely due to the extreme high temperatures of their habitat, but also due to the threat of predators, the ants are active outside their nest for only about ten minutes per day.".
• Saharan_silver_ant label "Cataglyphis bombycina".
• Saharan_silver_ant label "Cataglyphis bombycinus".
• Saharan_silver_ant label "Cataglyphis bombycinus".
• Saharan_silver_ant label "Saharan silver ant".
• Saharan_silver_ant sameAs Cataglyphis_bombycinus.
• Saharan_silver_ant sameAs Cataglyphis_bombycina.
• Saharan_silver_ant sameAs Cataglyphis_bombycinus.
• Saharan_silver_ant sameAs m.04g1mb6.
• Saharan_silver_ant sameAs Q2941588.
• Saharan_silver_ant sameAs Q2941588.
• Saharan_silver_ant wasDerivedFrom Saharan_silver_ant?oldid=599742804.
• Saharan_silver_ant depiction Saharan_Silver_Ants_Erg_Chebbi_2011.jpg.
• Saharan_silver_ant isPrimaryTopicOf Saharan_silver_ant.
• Saharan_silver_ant name "Saharan silver ant".