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Anyone who lives in the country knows about these little pools of ants, just a patch of ground where there are so many ants you can't see the ground itself, maybe even some of these in the city, I don't know.
Anyways, I have 2 of these little pools outside my back (main) door, and I always just walk past, as these little pools don't last long, and the ants will move on.
But a few minutes ago I just came in from outside and saw one of these little pools, and just watched it for about 15 minutes. Seriously.
I noticed many things that lead me to creating this thread.
1) The ants outside my door have a graveyard, with undertakers. There must be many ants that die in these pools, and being the smart little creatures ants actually are, they realize having all these dead bodies in their way doesn't make good efficiency, so they assign other ants (I could count about 10) to carry these bodies about 5-10cm away from the pool. There is actually a little pile of dead ants, with a few (like I said, about 5-10 ants) maintain it, rearranging the pile, and bringing ants over in a very neat single file line, which leads me to my next point.
2) Ants make roads. We can't see it, but I figure they put down some kind of smell or something, and other ants follow these trails religiously, they never stray from these paths (unless they are scouts). Which leads me my NEXT point.
3) War. Yes war. Ants send out scouts for 2 reasons, to find food (and then the scout will make a road from the colony to the food), and to find other colonies. I said I have 2 pools outside my door. I can only imagine what goes on underground after seeing the ants battle on top of the ground. They fight and kill, then more and more come, it's crazy. Ants also have medics. Not medics as in - they heal other ants, but medics as in, they clear the battlefield of the dead. both sides of the battles field had piles of dead ants, just like the graveyards, and I only caught one glimpse of enemy ants killing a medic ant. For the most part they leaves the medics alone so they can do their jobs. Which leads me to point 4.
4) Ants are assigned jobs. Medics, Undertakers, Scouts, diggers, queen, etc. And they never do the job of another either, they just do their job without question.
Ants are ****ing smart guys. I knew they were smart and strong (size/weight ratio), but god damn, they are SMART. Watching two ant colonies war is exactly like seeing 2 human colonies war, except we don't show the same respect to medics as the ants do.
The ants did alot more stuff, and I can easily go out and watch, it's a 5 second walk, so ask questions about these warring factions of ants if you want.
For the record, they are those small black/red ants, those very common ones you see, not the big annoying ones.
Anyways, I have 2 of these little pools outside my back (main) door, and I always just walk past, as these little pools don't last long, and the ants will move on.
But a few minutes ago I just came in from outside and saw one of these little pools, and just watched it for about 15 minutes. Seriously.
I noticed many things that lead me to creating this thread.
1) The ants outside my door have a graveyard, with undertakers. There must be many ants that die in these pools, and being the smart little creatures ants actually are, they realize having all these dead bodies in their way doesn't make good efficiency, so they assign other ants (I could count about 10) to carry these bodies about 5-10cm away from the pool. There is actually a little pile of dead ants, with a few (like I said, about 5-10 ants) maintain it, rearranging the pile, and bringing ants over in a very neat single file line, which leads me to my next point.
2) Ants make roads. We can't see it, but I figure they put down some kind of smell or something, and other ants follow these trails religiously, they never stray from these paths (unless they are scouts). Which leads me my NEXT point.
3) War. Yes war. Ants send out scouts for 2 reasons, to find food (and then the scout will make a road from the colony to the food), and to find other colonies. I said I have 2 pools outside my door. I can only imagine what goes on underground after seeing the ants battle on top of the ground. They fight and kill, then more and more come, it's crazy. Ants also have medics. Not medics as in - they heal other ants, but medics as in, they clear the battlefield of the dead. both sides of the battles field had piles of dead ants, just like the graveyards, and I only caught one glimpse of enemy ants killing a medic ant. For the most part they leaves the medics alone so they can do their jobs. Which leads me to point 4.
4) Ants are assigned jobs. Medics, Undertakers, Scouts, diggers, queen, etc. And they never do the job of another either, they just do their job without question.
Ants are ****ing smart guys. I knew they were smart and strong (size/weight ratio), but god damn, they are SMART. Watching two ant colonies war is exactly like seeing 2 human colonies war, except we don't show the same respect to medics as the ants do.
The ants did alot more stuff, and I can easily go out and watch, it's a 5 second walk, so ask questions about these warring factions of ants if you want.
For the record, they are those small black/red ants, those very common ones you see, not the big annoying ones.
