- The animal with the largest brain in proportion to its size is the ant. They are the smartest species of insects with about 250,000 brain cells.
- The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right side.
- The Slave-Maker ant is so named because it raids the nest of other ants and steals their pupae. Once the pupae hatch, they are made to work as slaves.
- Ants make up 1/10 of the total world animal tissue. The total biomass of all the ants on Earth is about equal to the total biomass of all the people.
- Workers in an ant colony only live for about 45-60 days, but a colony's queen can live up to 20 years.
- By combining force of numbers with organized aggression, ants have become the greatest insect killers on Earth -- even of their own kind.
- Ants began farming about 50 million years before humans thought to raise their own crops.
- Wood ants squirt acid from the end of their abdomens.
- The legs of the ant are very strong so they can run very quickly. If a man could run as fast for his size as an ant can, he could run as fast as a racehorse.
- Ants can lift 20 times their own body weight.
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