Paul Rudd plays the role of Ant-Man in Joe Russo and Anthony Russo's "Captain America: Civil War." (Photo : Twitter )
Paul Rudd played the title role in the box office hit "Ant-Man." However, based on a recent research on "lazy" ants, it appears that Ant-Man should be lazy.
Published on Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, a study by scientists Daniel Charbonneau and Dr. Anna Dornhaus noted that some focal ants are very inactive and that appears to be their role in the colony.
In a recent interview with Nature World News, Charbonneau said that most ants are female and not male as the "Ant-Man" character played by Rudd. He explained that all workers and the queens are females while and male ants are "fairly useless" as they neither work nor defend the colony.
Charbonneau pointed that that the purpose of male ants is "to go out and mate, after which they die" but that would not make much of a movie.
In the "Ant-Man" film, Rudd's character is a man, and the other ants were referred to as "he." As a reaction to this, Charbonneau said he played along because it is "a fun movie" and it is "really about a man in a suit, playing a Marvel character."
On the other hand, Charbonneau explained that the "Ant-Man" ants are supposed to be all females so they should not be referred to as males. He added that the movie seems to imply at the end that "Rudd's daughter and the daughter of a character who is the Old Ant-Man will join forces and be in a sequel."
As "Ant-Man" made no mention of the ant queen, Charbonneau said the flying ants portrayed as males in the movie should actually be queens. An ant was also accidentally enlarged in "Ant-Man." About this, the scientist explained that social insects do not get that big because they do have lungs.
