Random Ant Facts

    12 facts tagged with Ant Facts

    Ant Graveyard
    Ant Graveyard
    Ants have graveyards.
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    Ants have tiny magnetic compasses in their antennae which help them navigate.
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    Drunk Ants
    Drunk Ants
    If an ant is drunk, a fellow comrade will carry him back to the nest to sleep off the alcohol.
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    If a man could run as fast for his size as an ant can, he could run as fast as a racehorse.
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    Army Ant Sutures
    Army Ant Sutures
    Army ants are used as “natural sutures”. Their jaws are so powerful, natives staple wounds by forcing ants to bite them and break off the body.
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    The average life expectancy of an ant is 45-60 days.
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    The Slave-Maker Ant (Polyergus Rufescens) raids the nests of other ants and steals their pupae. When these new ants hatch,they work as slaves within the colony.
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    An ant brain has about 250 000 brain cells. A human brain has 10,000 million so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human.
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