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122 appendix c Lecture Summary “The Life of the Ant” Note: This is a transcription of the speaker summarizing his lecture as if he were speaking to an interpreter. This videotaped summary was viewed by the interpreters prior to interpreting the lecture. Hi. Um, so you’re going to be interpreting for me today. Great. Thanks. Um, I’m going to be talking about ants, a brief introduction. It should last about 15 minutes. And the main points that I want people to get out of it is, sort of an, a ba-, more of a appreciation of what ants are as species, what they do, how they affect the environment, um, that kind of thing—how they communicate which is really pretty incredible. Um, there are a few more technical kinds of words that might come up, will come up. And so, one of them is aphids, which are, it’s the little plantsucking bugs. And that’s spelled A-P-H-I-D-S. Aphids. Um, another one is castes, that is, castes as in India. So, that’s spelled C-A-S-T-E-S. Um, sort of occupational grades of ants. Gaster is one—the, uh, last segment of an ant that kind of people think as the stinger. That’s spelled G-A-S-T-E-R. And pheromones, signaling chemicals? That’s spelled P-H-E-R-O-M-O-NE -S. Um, there may be a few other special words but those are the most technical ones, I think. And, um, thanks a lot for doing this today. ...

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