My friend told me that Ants will not sleep.  He heard this in a TV game show.  So that he is very confident in it.  Explain in brief and get your points.  FUNNY ANSWERS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.
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No insects sleep, in the traditional sense. They go into something called "diapause." What happens is at night in temperate climates, the air temperature drops to levels at which the insect can no longer function normally. They get sluggish, find a safe place to hide, and stay there, in a nearly "frozen" state, completely inactive until the sun rises and temperatures increase. \n\nFor ants in tropical climates, the air temperatures usually do not get chilly enough for them to go into diapause and they work throughout the night, never sleeping.\n\nSo the answer is true.
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i promise you they sleep standing up. i own horses and have my entire life. sometimes they will rest laying down but most of the time they just rest laying down and sleep standing.  cows are the same way. i PROMISE!!! i own both cattle and horses and have seen them sleeping.
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I think anything's possible, perhaps even zombies. A lot of things happen that can be attributed only to the supernatural. Human beings actually know far less about the universe than we think we do...BUT...\n\nI wouldn't lose sleep over zombies. a.) There's never been a documented case of a zombie running around, much less hurting anyone. b.) If there are zombies, they've got 6 billion other folks living on this planet to harass, so the odds of them picking on you are pretty low.\n\nIf you're a worrier and need to fret over something, why don't you start fearing the possibility of being struck by a meteorite. The odds of that are a lot better than those of having a zombie ringing your doorbell at 3 o'clock in the morning.\n\nSweet dreams!
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Ants have varying food sources AND they go through various lifecycles where they eat different things at different times of life.\n\nYes, they do usually go back to their nest and leave a chemical scent trail so the others can get back to where they found the food source.\n\nIt's possible that wood in the floor by the toilet or urine that hasn't been cleaned up, yet is attracting it.
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Just imagine an army of ants with no queen. God Bless! quit the arrogance and realize all this beautiful nature was not created by chance or you. God Bless Love. Amen. Try praying and speaking to your Father God.
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You have the question backwards. The vast majority of animals can not sleep standing up. An inability to sleep standing up is the default trait, it is the primitive condition. Therefore the real question is why was an ability to sleep while standing selected.\n\nOur earliest ancestors were cold blooded and couldn’t move at night anyway, so obviously it made no difference whether they slept lying down, standing up or hanging form their tails.\n\nOur first warm blooded ancestors were nocturnal and lived in burrows and hollow logs. In those conditions it makes no difference whether an animals sleeps standing up or lying down. \n\nOur first primate ancestors were arboreal and either slept in dreys, in hollow branches or hugging the branch of a tree. Under those conditions it would be positively dangerous to sleep standing up.\n\nOur first ape ancestors either retained the trait of sleeping hugging tree baches, or they built nests on the ground. Once again it would be positively dangerous to draw attention to yourself by sleeping standing up.\n\nOur first hominid ancestors presumably built nests on the ground. Once again, the idea of standing upright in the middle of a savanna while asleep is pure suicide.\n\nI really can’t see why you believe it was ever beneficial in our evolutionary history to sleep standing upright. What possible advantage could it give to draw attention to a helpless sleeping animal by having it stand up?\n\n\n>>>>In a prehistoric world would we not have been more at a disadvantage for sleeping while down..\n\nCan you explain how we could possibly be at any disadvantage for sleeping in a position that minimises our visibility to predators?\n\n>>>>or sleeping for that matter.\n\nWell if you are asking why animals sleep at all that is an entirely different question with completely different (and less certain) answers.\n\nIf we accept that animals do need to sleep then I can't understand why you think standing out against the background would be beneficial.
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all ants bite... they devour their food by eating it,will bite if you try to mess with them...even the tiny ones will defend themselves & their queen & nests..fire ants are the worse kind though,they have a poison that makes it burn really intense when they bite you....too many bites can be deadly
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Biologists believe that during waking hours there are chemical changes (like harmful substances) and physical changes (wear and tear on cells) that are corrected when we sleep. Different stages of sleep are believed to have different functions. For example, REM sleep (when we dream) is believed to be when we consolidate learning and make memories. Slow wave sleep (the times when we are really quiet and not dreaming) is when restoraton is believed to take place. \n\nAs somebody said earlier, if we dont sleep we eventually die. Sleep deprived Rats became uncoordinated, lost weight due to climbing metabollc rates and appeared to starve to death though they were fed. Their immune functon was also compromised but cause of death was not really clear. \n\nMoreover, If you dont sleep you get haggard and ugly, its hard to concentrate, your family will eventually hate you for being a grouch and you will lose your job for making mistakes and telling off your boss. (if you dont kill yourself while driving to work first.) Everything is better with sleep :)
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African Driver Ants are vicious.  Some tribes leave their dead out for the ants for one night, and collect the clean bones in the morning (This is NOT an exaggeration).
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i think they sleep. but they dont close their eyes. i think whent they remain still for a long time it means that they are asleep
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The incorrect answer is C. Spiders will NOT accept dead insects. They only eat the fresh ones (otherwise we'd have a lot less dead insects around).\n\nHope this has helped you!
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" due to my interest into animals sleeping patterns, i have decided to investigate in to whether artificial light could affect the way that certain animals sleep. To carry out this investigation i will do the following ...... \nMy hypothesis ( theory / idea to the outcome) would be that artifficial light does ....\nsomething like that should give you a start
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When I was in high school, I was conducting a Psychology experiment and managed to stay up for 6 1/2 days.  I had heard that sometimes people hallucinate from lack of sleep and wanted to find out.  I did not hallucinate.
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Fish sleep just like regular animals.  Thier basic motor functions still maintain, like movement.  Dolphins and other mammals shut down a half of thier brain at a time so they still come up for air.  Certain fish do this too because they don't pump water over thier gills, there needs to be motion to mover the water over them.  Hope that helps.
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Lol...omg. That's funny as hell. Truthfully it depends on if the kids are old enough to understand the joke and laugh at it...but they wouldnt be going to bed at 9 pm. If u want to scare the kids into sleeping, tell them if they dont, the monsters under the bed will eat them....or if you actually want them to sleep, tell them no more presents on their birthdays & such.
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No, the lack of oxygen is a myth. But in fact no one knows for sure what the actual reason is. It might be a way of regulating body temperature, a chemical reaction in the body, or stretching the jaw. The most interesting theory I think, is that it is a herd instinct to synchronise sleeping patterns in the "pack". Basically, it is "contagious", and when we were much more primitive animals it helped us having the same daily routines as the rest of the group.
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ants are the coolest-all over the world different species work in large colonies to do amazing things, they practice agriculture: some cultivate a species of fungus to eat using cut up leaves as substrate and every time there is a new colony to be formed they bring the fungus with them. Some raise aphids like cows protecting them from predators to feed on a sweet secretion they produce. Some live in specialy evolved hollow spaces on plants built specifically to house ants who in return protect the plant from any intruder and even vines that try to grow on it-they will even weed out plants trying to grow on the ground around it! They also wage wars against other ant colonies, and that's just the beginning....