Many families of land animals live separated by hundreds of kilometers of wide and vast oceans. Explanations for how they got so far from each other are as varied as the animals themselves.
In recent times, many animals have hitched rides with humans traveling around the world, on our vehicles, food products, and on our bodies.
Termites are flying creatures, and although you might imagine they could take the trip by air, they're actually pretty lousy at flying over long distances, so they're better suited crossed vast stretches of water via a different form of transport.an evolutionary geneticist from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University in Japan.to illustrate this.
To work this out, the team didn't set up drywood termites on little boats and let them set sail . Instead, they looked at the drywood termite familyAnalyzing hundreds of worldwide drywood termite samples collected over the last 30 years or so, the researchers focused on around 120 species of the termite, representing 27 percent of the diversity of Kalotermitidae, and representing almost all of the different genera, which gave the team a lot of information to work with.
According to the researchers, however, some of the oldest lineages in the genetic family foraged on multiple wood pieces, suggesting that the single-piece-of-wood strategy could be a relatively new adaptation, possibly driven by competition.
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