Ant communities are headed by a queen or queens, whose role in life is to lay thousands of eggs to ensure survival of the colony. An ant brain has about 250 000 brain cells. A human brain has 10,000 million for a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the brain the same size as a human being.
Ants communicate and cooperate by using chemicals that can alert others to danger or lead to a promising source of food. One of 10,000 species of ants, leaf-cutting ant moves of a blade over three times its size to the nest. The ants produce glycerol in their mouths during the winter to avoid freezing.
13 comments:
at: January 22, 2011 at 8:07 AM said...
Interesting! Thanks :)
at: January 22, 2011 at 4:42 PM said...
Very informative! Thanks for sharing. :)
at: January 22, 2011 at 7:12 PM said...
Good work well done
at: January 22, 2011 at 8:57 PM said...
living as making a colony of such a huge population is really something interesting...... we the Human must take a lesson from these small creature that how discipline they are while moving in a row.. one following other
at: January 22, 2011 at 10:55 PM said...
@mohini thanks:)
@Balqis Thanks for your visit!!!
@shyam Thanks!!
@Irfanuddin you are right! we are most indisciplined creature :))
at: January 23, 2011 at 1:03 AM said...
such a info blogs yoou have,love to read more and more,thanx for sharing.
at: January 23, 2011 at 1:37 AM said...
Really knowledge showering! Just learnt more about ants. Once I read about ants how they get back to their HOME without missing their way. Perhaps, they count how many steps they have been away from their HOME. 'YEH DIL MANGE MORE'
at: January 24, 2011 at 5:01 PM said...
Interesting facts. I did not know all of those! Keep up the great posting and thanks for commenting on my blog. Have a great week!
at: January 26, 2011 at 6:21 AM said...
@sabscience Thanks for such a lovely comment!!!
@Suresh Thanks , don't worry aage aage dekhye hota hai kya:D
@ steve thanks for your lovely comment!!!
at: January 26, 2011 at 1:03 PM said...
Quite informative. Didn't realize that ants have a substance in their mouth during the winter which keeps them from freezing. Interesting.
at: January 27, 2011 at 2:34 AM said...
@sixthirtythree thanks for your comment... keep visiting!!
at: February 3, 2011 at 6:37 AM said...
nice facts,
one or two more,.
ants can carry all the human beings on earth and throw them in to sea, if they all unite.
they are very social, do everything systematically in a line and discipline.
if any freak is able to turn their minds
at: October 6, 2011 at 11:55 PM said...
Great info. The rate at which ants can communicate is actually quite amazing. Much more than most people imagine.
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