美国波士顿大学心理学教授大卫·H·巴洛有一段时间住在乡下的农庄里,农庄前是一片树林。有一天,巴洛教授在树林边散步时发现,长得最粗最壮的那棵红杉上,爬满了蚂蚁。显然,蚂蚁将红杉当成了安乐窝。巴洛教授很讨厌这些小家伙,他决定把它们从树上赶走。在树干上,教授找到了蚂蚁窝,他便用湿泥巴将树洞结结实实地堵上。可是,第二天,教授过来一看,蚂蚁们已在另一个地方咬了个洞,泥巴对它们毫无用处。教授找来了更结实的木楔,结果,还是不能阻止这帮家 David H. Barlow, a professor of psychology at Boston University, for some time, lived in a rural farmhouse for a while. One day, Professor Barlow walked through the woods and found that the oldest and most vigorous of that redwood covered with ants. Obviously, ants use Sequoia as a comfort zone. Professor Barlow hates these little guys and decides to drive them off the trees. On the tree trunk, the professor found an ant nest, and he clogged the tree hole with wet mud. However, the next day, the professor came and saw that the ants had bitten a hole in another place, and the mud had no use for them. Professor came to find a more solid wedge, the result, still can not stop this bunch of home