[Izzy Dunne]

But an ant, for instance, sees the cable as a 2D object, because it can crawl along and also around the cable.

Here's a link to a a NOVA program about that very topic:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program_d.html .

Chapter 7 of the 2nd hour talks about the ants on the cable.

You can watch the whole three hours online.

[Michael Barnes]

re #3

That is a great online offering by Nova..I watch it periodically and pick up new things everytime...Well worth the bandwidth and time spent.

[Hot Tabasco]

Chapter 7 of the 2nd hour talks about the ants on the cable.

No thanks, ants creep me out! Besides, there is another thread floating around about ants who delight in torturing and dismembering their prey after designing an intricate trap to capture them.......... Ants have intelligence and need to be destroyed.