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The Smallest Yet The Powerful
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I am back with another wholesome weird topic today....so, bear with me!
This one is about a living being spreaded worldwide (except for Antarctica) about over 12,000 species, called Ants. From the very young age, we have heard stories about this smaller living being. It is evident in that one story, in which an ant saved his friend pigeon from the hunter, that a small bite from him will make you pray for your life. The most amazing yet dangerous thing about them is that they can eat us alive if they want to, given the fact that they eat us when we die🙃
Here are some of the most amazing facts about ants:
- Ants are one of the world's strongest creatures in relation to its size. A single one can carry 50 times it's own weight and even work together to move bigger objects.
- They don't have ears. Instead, they listen by feeling vibrations from the ground through their feet while some eye-less ants communicates through their antennae.
In addition, they produce a chemical substance called pheromones, to send messages to other ants. They also use this to attract a mate, it acts as a sort of love potion. - The largest ant's colony ever found was in Argentina in 2000, which houses about 33 and populations and spread over 3,700 miles wide!
- Ants had lived on this earth before man. A fossil of an ant had been around since the Cretaceous period, about 110 --130 million yrs ago.
- They dispose of their dead. Only a few creatures on earth treat their dead with respect such as humans, elephants and also ants. When an ant dies inside the nest, they will carry the dead body outside for sanitation, by which prohibiting ways for the infection/disease to spread the entire colony. They even have special undertakes for this.
- They can clone themselves. Parthenogenesis is a form of reproduction where there is no need for fertilization, making the resulting offspring a clone of a mother. A group of Amazonian ants are the best cited examples for this. Among small fire ants, both males and females do clone themselves.
- As ants are social insects, their survival worker ants are out into groups of jobs like foraging, caretakers of eggs and baby ants. The thing which matter here is that they teach their young all these skills, just like we humans. They were not born with necessary skills that are already programmed in their DNA like other beings.
- This may come as a surprise to you all.…THAT ANTS WAGE WAR BETWEEN THEMSELVES. The tactics they use in warfare are similar to human war strategies. They can even use ‘propaganda pheromones’ to confuse enemy ants and make them fight themselves. Strangely, some Amazonian ants resemble the fabled spartans in their way of life, as if they only survive through waging wars to replenish their slaves and to get more resources from other colonies. In addition, they even acts like medieval Knights in their nests, demanding food from their slaves and burnishing their armor.
That's it. Reading which, do you feel like ants are more like us humans? Comment your opinions below.
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