[www.keralites.net] Google Ants - Proceratium google !

 

Madagascar  , a place in the earth having huge biodiversity ,The story starts from here.Dr brain L fisher , who worked in Madagascar biodiversity was interested in ants. He tried to find all the types of ants found in that island.not only that he wanted to make people know where the ants would be found . for this he approached Google earths authorities.

Brian L. Fisher, Associate Curator of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences has named this ant after google. Mr. Fisher was so impressed with the help google gave him in setting up a "bio-map" of ants around the world using google earth that he named an ant after them! We tried to get NASA's help to develop such a system for years with their mapping expertise and data, but Google Earth answered the call first. I am so impressed with Google that I have named an ant I recently discovered in Madagascar Proceratium google. Its bizarrely-shaped abdomen is an adaptation for hunting down obscure prey: spider eggs. Google have allowed antweb (run by Mr. Fisher and the California Academy of Science) to create an interface to google earth. So now using google earth and linking it to the antwebs mappings you can see where different species of ants around the world have habitats! It's pretty cool.

ഉറുമ്പുകളിലെ ഒരിനമാണ് ഗൂഗിൾ ഉറുമ്പ് (പ്രാസറേഷ്യം ഗൂഗിൾ, Proceratium google). കാലിഫോർണിയ അക്കാദമി ഓഫ് സയൻസിലെ ശാസ്ത്രജ്ഞർഗൂഗിൾ മാപ്പിന്റെ സഹായത്താലാണ് മഡഗാസ്കറിൽ നിന്നും ഇവയെ കണ്ടെത്തിയത്. അതിനാലാണ് ഇവയ്ക്ക് ഗൂഗിൾ ഉറുമ്പ് എന്ന പേരു ലഭിച്ചത്.ബ്രിയൻ എൽ. ഫിഷർ എന്ന ശാസ്ത്രജ്ഞനാണ് ഈ ഉറുമ്പിനെ കണ്ടെത്തിയത്.

for further reading : http://www.antweb.org/description.do?rank=species&genus=proceratium&name=google&project=

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/ants-unearthed-with-google-earth.html

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