'Termites don't have digestive systems' and other absurd assertions.

2,915 views · Published 13 January 2011 · 5:01 · Indexed 10 November 2026

Channel: Desertphile · 2011 · Science & Technology

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This video is a reply to the video found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD1LHib2eHw

My video includes a few seconfs from the movie "Galaxina."

The termite digestive sytsem and their hindgut microorganisms evolved at the same time: neither evolved first.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formosan_subterranean_termite

http://www.springerlink.com/index/t629283h34p85843.pdf

http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0965174801001606

http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S096517480200108X

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