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A crowd that decided being one creature was overrated.
means A group of the same species living together, or a territory settled and controlled by people from another country.
from From Latin colonia, 'a settled land' or 'farm,' built from colonus, 'a farmer or settler,' which itself comes from the verb colere, 'to cultivate, tend, or inhabit.' The same root grows into 'culture' and 'agriculture' — so at heart a colony is just a patch of ground someone decided to till and stay on. Rome stamped its colonia across conquered land as planted settlements of citizens; the word later carried that flavor of 'people sent to take root elsewhere' into English.
- ant queens
- Some live 30 years, outlasting entire forests
- superorganism
- A colony thinks without any single brain
- largest
- One ant supercolony spans 6,000 kilometers of coast
- coral cities
- Reefs are billions of tiny animals stacked together
- naked mole-rats
- Mammals with a queen and sterile workers underground
british raj india — british colonial rule over india, 1858-1947
hong kong — british colony in china, 1841-1997
belgian congo — leopold ii's personal colony in africa, 1885-1908