6 Oct 2023

How a Age of Empires could help to save native Australian ants

From Nights, 9:25 pm on 6 October 2023

Once upon a time, back in the halcyon days of the late-90s, breakfast cereal companies used to give out free copies of video games in their cereal boxes.

Now, more than 20 years on, that game is being reappropriated by Australian biosecurity experts ... who think it could help to save native Australian ants from other, invasive species.

Dr Samuel Lymbery is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Biosecurity at Murdoch University in Perth and discusses his research with Todd Zaner.