During the course of this exhaustive study, Reznikova has grown so attached to her laboratory ants that she feels she knows them as individuals—even without the paint spots used to mark them.

在这项详尽的研究过程中，雷兹尼科娃对她实验室里的蚂蚁产生了如此强烈的依恋，以至于她充分了解每一只蚂蚁——她甚至不需要用颜料斑点来标记它们。