And social insects take it to another level.

而群居昆虫的数量则是更上一层楼。

So what social insect has that enables the fungus to hijack their brain?

那么，社会性昆虫有什么特质，导致真菌能劫持它们的大脑？

And here, we can take inspiration from social insects.

在这里，我们可以从群居昆虫中汲取灵感。

This termite is not the only social insect that has a vastly different lifespan depending on its role.

这种白蚁并不是唯一一种根据其作用而具有截然不同寿命的社会性昆虫。

Also, like today's social insect specialists, alvarezsaurs had no teeth in the front of their mouth.

此外，像今天的社会昆虫专家一样，阿尔瓦雷兹龙的嘴巴前面没有牙齿。

Xenomorphs are a eusocial species much like ants, honey bees, and other social insects, with a clearly defined caste system.

Xenomorphs 是一种社会性物种， 很像蚂蚁、蜜蜂和其他社会性昆虫，具有明确定义的种姓制度。

In this way, we have learned all that we know of the laws of astronomy, or of the habits of the social insects, let us say.

通过这样做，可以说我们已取得了有关天文学定律或是群居性昆虫习惯等的所有知识。

Far fewer studies look at these processes in social insects, whose aging takes twists and turns that rival any C. elegans' movements.

很少有研究关注群居昆虫的这些过程，它们的衰老曲折可与任何秀丽隐杆线虫的运动相媲美。

And these thriving social insect colonies that appeared in the Mid to Late Cretaceous might have made a new lifestyle possible for some dinosaurs.

这些在白垩纪中晚期出现的繁荣的群居昆虫群落可能为某些恐龙创造了一种新的生活方式。

Even in fruit flies, which are not social insects and don’t have a caste system, this lab-made diet made the insects lighter, shorter, and less fertile.

即使在不是社会性昆虫且没有种姓制度的果蝇中，这种实验室制作的饮食也使昆虫更轻、更矮、生育能力更差。

As scientists find better ways to monitor and tweak genes in social insects, these colonies of critters may help us understand aging in ways that other animals can't.

随着科学家们找到更好的方法来监测和调整群居昆虫的基因，这些生物群落可能会帮助我们以其他动物无法做到的方式了解衰老。

And the origin and spread of social insects would not only push these dinos toward a new diet, but it would also come with a surprising consequence.

群居昆虫的起源和传播不仅会推动这些恐龙转向新的饮食方式，还会带来令人惊讶的后果。

Their hands became similar to those of anteaters and other insect-eating mammals today, which have an enlarged finger with a pick-like claw to break open social insect nests.

他们的手变得类似于今天的食蚁兽和其他食虫哺乳动物的手，它们的手指变大了，带有类似镐的爪子，可以打破群居昆虫的巢穴。

Well, it looks like Mononykus and its relatives might've carved out their own ecological niche - one that only really became possible with the rise of social insects, like ants and termites, in the Cretaceous Period.

好吧，看起来单爪龙和它的近亲可能已经开辟了自己的生态位——只有在白垩纪时期，随着蚂蚁和白蚁等群居昆虫的兴起，这种生态位才真正成为可能。

This group includes things like the social insects — bees and ants and termites — and for all of these animals, colony hygiene is of critical importance, and so as a result these animals display rigorous undertaking behaviors in response to corpses.

属于这一大类的包括社会性昆虫——蜜蜂、蚂蚁、白蚁——对所有这些动物而言，巢穴的卫生极度重要，因此，这些动物对于尸体的反应就是采取严格的下葬行为。

So, while the first alvarezsaurs were carnivores, the rise of social insects during the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution seems to have pushed them into a new niche -- one that was new for them and new for dinosaurs.

因此，虽然第一批 alvarezsaurs 是食肉动物，但白垩纪地球革命期间群居昆虫的兴起似乎将它们推向了一个新的利基市场——这对它们来说是新的，对恐龙来说也是新的。