These tiny insects with tiny brains are among the most extraordinary animals in the world. They are social creatures that live in structurally and socially organised colonies. Ant behaviour is very sophisticated: they have a very complex communication system, social hierarchy and highly developed organisational skills.
Ants are engaged in educating their youngsters – not just showing what to do and how to do it, but actively instructing their ‘students’, with the ‘teacher-ant’ sharing the knowledge without any benefit to the teacher.
If we add ants’ caring skills on top of that, these tiny insects deserve all the respect they can get. For example, ants are the only non-human animals known to ‘farm’ other animals. They nurture their ‘cattle’ (caterpillars and aphids), keep them safe and comfortable for the food (sugary secretion) they produce. The comparison between the care provided by ants to their ‘farm animals’ and human’s historical master-slave relationship is not in favour of the humans.
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Ants, like other social insects (bees, wasps, hornets), are amazing to watch. I have only ever been attacked by any of them when I blindly blundered into their path, causing death underfoot. We could learn a lot from the animals around us if we just stopped being so arrogant about our own importance as humans. If any super large alien being were to watch mass human behaviour for any length of time, they would surmise that we had no intelligence and seemed to operate on a programmed ‘instinct’ alone, often to our own detriment.
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In a way, compared to ants, humans are lagging behind in their development: anything humans have achieved, ants discovered long ago. Humans seem to follow their suit. For example, 50 millions ago there were already species in Brazil that cultivated edible fungus, thus introducing agricultural methods. Humans have to catch up with the ability of ants to self-regulate their colonies: depending on the particular needs of each colony, they produce the necessary operatives, e.g., in times of war there are more soldiers, in time of peace – more workers.
Ants don’t need technology/computers to achieve the same instant communication with their numerous family members: they have access to the brains of their own species without any internet connection.
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