112 BEHAVIOUR TO INTOXICATED FRIENDS. 



as it is not in all cases easy to hit off the requisite 

 degree of intoxication. The numbers therefore of 

 friends and strangers are not quite the same, because 

 in some cases the ants recovered too quickly and had 

 to be removed. In such cases I have latterly replaced 

 the ant so removed by another, so as to keep the 

 number of friends and strangers about equal. The 

 sober ants seemed somewhat puzzled at finding their 

 intoxicated fellow creatures in such a disgraceful con- 

 tion, took them up, and carried them about for a time 

 in a somewhat aimless manner. 



November 20. — I experimented with six friends 

 and six strangers, beginning at 11. 



At 11.30 a friend was carried to the nest. 



1 1 .50 a stranger was dropped into the water. 

 12.30 



12.31 a friend 

 1.10 a stranger 

 1.18 



1.27 „ . 



1.30 a friend (partly recovered) was taken to 



the nest. 

 2.30 a friend was taken up and carried about 

 till 2.55; she was then taken to the nest, but at the 

 door the bearer met two other ants, which seized the 

 intoxicated one, carried her off, and eventually 

 dropped her into the water. 



At 3.35 a friend was carried to the nest. 



Out of these twelve, five strangers and two friends 



