Ants

ENCRYPTION LEVEL: ONE

[Voice Recognition Initialized]

[Subjects Identified: A001, B556]

[LOG BEGINS]

Technician: Atta cephalotes. What sort of experiment are you doing with these?

Director: No experiment. I just find them interesting. Don't you?

 

Tech: Not really?

Director: You ought to. Very efficient. They perfected farming millions of years before humans.

(sound of tapping on glass)

Director: An entire colony led by and in service to its queen. Each organism knows its role.

Tech: I have the results from the power tests, director.

Director: And?

Tech: Negative, ma'am.

Director: I see. You know, another admirable quality of ants occurs to me. They can pull twenty times their own weight.

Tech: I'm not sure I follow, ma'am.

Director: Are you pulling your weight, doctor?

[LOG ENDS]