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. 
11.50 a stranger was dropped into the water. 
12.30 ” 7) ” 
12.31 a friend Pr 35 
1.10 a stranger es 33 
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 
