Of course, the protagonist did not master the specific operation methods of so many complex experiments, but just relying on the knowledge of high school biology where he had good grades, he was able to design a test method consisting of a few experiments such as conditioned reflex experiments and roundabout pathways experiments. .
The test was divided into six groups. In addition to the worker ants grown in nurseries No. 1 to 5, a group of adult worker ants from ordinary nurseries also participated in the test.
After a series of experiments and continuous fine-tuning of the experimental content based on practical experience, the protagonist gradually got the answer.
The intelligence level of the worker ants in Nursery No. 1 is the same as that of ordinary worker ants. They can pass the conditioned reflex experiment and will continue to find ways to overcome obstacles in the roundabout experiment.
Generally speaking, the protagonist believes that if the IQ of male ants is compared to that of humans, the IQ of worker ants is at the level of a gorilla.
It’s hard to imagine that two ants with such a huge gap in intelligence could be the same species. However, ants are inherently differentiated creatures. Because of this, a few male and female ants can rule a nest composed of a majority of worker ants and soldiers.
Fortunately, although the intelligence level of the worker ants is not high, the tasks they undertake do not require high mental requirements. The worker ants that have just emerged from pupae do not even need to receive education like the male ants, and can only rely on the instinct imprinted in their genes to complete the tasks at hand. work. Countless times of practice after that only improved their skill proficiency.
Although the large worker ants cultivated in nurseries No. 2 and No. 3 are slightly different in size, their intelligence levels are not much different.
Although there are no newly adult male ants that can be used as a reference system, the protagonist has had experience with Gun and Rambo Fei who have just emerged from pupae. He believes that the intelligence level of these large worker ants is the same as that of male ants.
If in the future study and education, the big worker ants in Nursery No. 2 and No. 3 can quickly master the knowledge that relies on acquired learning like the male ants, then it will be very important and good news for the protagonist.
After all, cultivating a male ant still requires more resources than cultivating a large worker ant, and the male ants also have an inexplicable sense of superiority in the eyes of the protagonist. They will not engage in any work other than military and political work.
What makes the protagonist most gratified is the adult pale gold worker ants in nurseries No. 4 and 5. They both easily passed the simple experiment designed by the protagonist. Moreover, after the protagonist had a sudden idea and injected the knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and even the Pythagorean Theorem into their minds through information packets, only ten days later, these pale gold worker ants were able to master these mathematical knowledge.
It would not be so rare to say that male ants can also master the basic mathematical skills of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and can skillfully apply them to troop statistics and summary of battle results. The Pythagorean Theorem is an out-and-out profound theoretical knowledge.
The Pythagorean Theorem is one of the most important tools for solving geometric problems using algebraic thinking, and it is also one of the links between numbers and shapes. It is one of the mathematical theorems with the most proven methods, and it is also one of the important mathematical theorems discovered and proved earlier in human history.
But this was discovered earlier, after millions of years of ignorance. In China, Shang Gao during the Shang Dynasty proposed a special case of the Pythagorean theorem of "hook three strands, four xuan five". In the West, the first person to propose and prove this theorem was Pythagoras of ancient Greece in the 6th century BC. He used deduction to prove that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the two right-angled sides.
And a group of pale gold worker ants who have just grown up and are still a blank slate have not even mastered basic mathematical knowledge before. They can learn such advanced theories from the protagonist shortly after learning addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Although this kind of mastery is still very primitive, the method of learning through information packets is also somewhat tricky.
Moreover, the number concepts of these pale gold worker ants are still focused on natural numbers that can be counted directly, such as one, two, three, and four, and they are still unable to understand the meaning of square roots. Therefore, they can understand the hook of three strands, four strings and five, but they are confused about the hook of one strand, one string and root number two.
However, this is already a very terrifying IQ and learning ability.
Specifically speaking, the average intelligence level of the pale gold worker ants in the No. 5 nursery is slightly higher than that of the No. 4 nursery. It seems that you get what you put in, and no cost can be saved at all.
——I am the dividing line——
After the experimental results came out, the protagonist was extremely excited.
The protagonist has been worried about the three major constraints that have plagued the subsequent development of "Dongyang City": innovation power, intelligence and body shape. With the emergence of this group of highly intelligent worker ants, at least two bottlenecks can be overcome.
Needless to say, intellectual bottlenecks, and innovation bottlenecks are also closely related to intellectual level.
Only intelligent creatures like humans will have the motivation to continuously pursue progress in technology and organizational methods to create better and more comfortable living conditions, as well as the weapons to protect a comfortable life.
As for ordinary creatures who are confused, they just work hard for survival and reproduction throughout their lives, and they will not take the initiative to make any innovations.
But now, with such a group of worker ants, they may not be too numerous, but they can be trained as scientific researchers, educators and senior technicians. When "Dongyang City" has a certain scale of these technicians, Innovation can be spontaneously promoted like in the human world, and there is no need to rely on the protagonist to take care of everything.
How to place these big worker ants and pale gold worker ants? The protagonist feels the need to do the planning himself.
For this reason, he put down all the work at hand and locked himself in the palace. Not only could he not go out to eat or drink, he even ignored the news that "Stump Fortress" had been reported by a small-scale attack by scythe-hunting ants.
These days, the protagonist's only concern is how to place these precious worker ants and pale gold worker ants.
There are only twenty large worker ants and light gold large worker ants in this batch, but based on the current material output of "Dongyang City", the protagonist estimates that "Dongyang City" can still supply about 400 large worker ants and light gold large worker ants. survival.
If the high-end food supply of adult male ants, queens, large workers and light-gold worker ants is compressed, the saved high-end food can also breed more large workers and light-gold worker ants.
However, how many large worker ants and pale gold large worker ants does "Dongyang City" need? If there are not enough positions to place these "high-level intellectuals", the role they can play will not be stronger than that of ordinary worker ants, but the resources they consume will be much higher.
There is another crucial question that the protagonist dare not take carelessly - get rid of these male ants, and how does the queen view and get along with the big worker ants?
