What I wanted to say it is that a hive can extend itself for hundreds of meters or kilometers simultaneously.
Daniel Rocha wrote: But there is a crucial difference between dividing in organs and in > different individuals which is the ability to reach resources. A colony of > cells cannot do much other dividing tasks among themselves but it cannot > reach anything beyond its volume or it must count on passively on the > ecosystem's flow of matter and energy. But a hive can do it by itself > actively! > So can a mobile animal. Of course there are huge differences between most colonies and animals . . . but in some cases the distinction is blurred. A jellyfish is a colony of cells - Jed
