why do ants sleep in a large group?
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As they are social insects and they live by division of labor and work in unison. They are closely knit by pheromones.
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Ants build anthills because that is their home where they keep the queen to make more ants. It is also used for protection against wind, rain and people stomping on it.
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Actually, ants have been shown to suffer no ill effects when dropped from ANY height. Their terminal velocity is not sufficient for them to sustain injury.
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Yes but they breathe very slowly, only a few breaths per hour, I think. Also they breath from the underside of their bodies, near their rears. That's why they can burrow their heads.
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The genus Atta is the pinnacle of Attine evolution, with 15 species representing the premier leaf-cutting ants. The huge queens, well over an inchlong, are efficient egg-laying machines, giving rise to worker populations as large as several million individuals. The workers are strongly polymorphic, varying in length from about 1/16 to 5/8 inches, and correspondingly, a several hundred-fold increase in body weight! \n\nThis is what I could find on the Atta...Here is the website on the total Leafcutter Ants issus...well one website anyways. (The first site listed is what I found this info under)
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Yes they do.\n\nQuote from article found at http://ant.edb.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/ \n\n---quote begins---\nAlthough ants can be seen in various places from spring to autumn, they go into hibernation in the winter. In addition, from spring to autumn, many ants are seen to come from, and go into, the entrances of their nests, but these entrances are closed in winter and no ants are seen to come from there.\nWhere do ants pass the winter?\n---quote ends---\n\nFind out more from\nhttp://ant.edb.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/BE/Kingdom/5657/5657e.html
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The home range is determined by the availability of food, water and natural barriers. Say for example there were no other gorillas to limit the range of a family they would not go any farther than they had to to fulfill there requirements for living.  As for waking and sleeping it is dependent on the silver backs whims and his knowledge of the best time of day to do certain things such as feeding in a locale that might have predators early and late in the day but small risk during midday etc.
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Ants have highly notable evolutionary mathematical instincts - just observe their colonies, chemically-organized behavior, and communal actions (e.g. marching, hunting, defending, etc.) as ONE creature.  They often build multilayer interlocking bridges (many times out of their own bodies), for instance, for other ants to cross over - suggesting that their geometrical instincts and architectural abilities are at least 3D)   ... However, if you like to "suppose" that they possess mathematical "reasoning", then why simply limit yourself to dimensional worlds?   ... Why not suppose that a first ant geometry can describe anomalously Transdimensional worlds, as well?   ... See, it pays to think like an ant, or at least a mathematician!   lol
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O look who it is the guy who has the fetish with Ants and being locked in his girlfriends room....your weird you should use all this time you have asking stupid questions doing something productive instead. Who cares if your an ant! honestly after reading two of your ant questions i would step on you and squish your ant body so you would stop asking these questions! Thank you!
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Ants use their antennae to smell
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I tried answering the other question, but will try again.\n\nImagine a huge sheet of rubber with ants crawling of it. Now imagine that the sheet is being stretched and that the ants are crawling fairly slowly. On average, two ants will be moving away from each other due to the stretching of the sheet and those ants that are farther away from each other will be moving away from each other faster. However, if you have two ants that are fairly close, they can be moving closer to each other because of the way they crawl., even though the sheet is being stretched.\n\nThis is what happens with galaxies in the universe. Space itself is like the rubber sheet. The overall expansion of the universe is like the stretching of that sheet. However, each galaxy is also moving in space (like the ants crawl). The result is that galaxies that are far away from each other are moving away from each other faster on average. But those that are really close to each other can be moving togethe rbecause of their peculiar motion (the crawling) even though the space itself is stretching.\n\nNow, if you want to get an accurate picture of the expansion, it is best to look at galaxies that are far apart since the crawling will be overwhelmed by the stretching. In reality, some close galaxies are moving closer to us and others are moving away, but this is mostly because of the crawl part of the motion.
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Ant brains are largest amongst insects.  Mushroom shaped brain appendages have function similar to the gray-matter of human brains.\n \nIt has been estimated that an ant's brain may have the same processing power as a Macintosh II computer.\n\nProbably not sentient in the way that we are. They cooperate with each other and have acute senses.
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A group of organisms, such as an insect colony, that functions as a social unit.
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The big ants guard the workers(the small ones) to keep them on track and protect them.Ibelive the drones attend to the Queen.
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Driver Ants. They were formerly called African Army Ants or Old World Army Ants. A colony can be 10 to 20 million strong and kills anything at all that doesn't get out of their way, even an elephant. Death comes from asphyxiation as the ants crawl into the mouth, nose, and lungs of their victim.
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I think what you are asking is why do ants touch each others mouths as they come and go in lines...and the reason is a simple one.\n\nAnts are territorial and they are also very near-sighted, so even though they are from the same "ant hill" they still need to confirm that they belong in that set line and assembly, home etc...so they touch each other to do one of two things; they are indentifing each other by touch and taste, and or they are exchanging food or material particles that they are transporting. \n\nAnts work in a community system where they all share the load of any job or task...so some are coming into the nest and some are leaving after dropping off their load of food, materials etc... Ants were the first to enact the assembly line formation, and so they each are constantly coming and going to the place they call home, and touch to indentify or exchange. Great question, hoped this helped you.
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No one knows for sure, but the leading answer is that its an evolved comunication tool. It is a signal to the others of Joe Cavemans group that its time to change their resting state (going to sleep or waking up). There may be benefits to have everyone in the group on the same rest cycle.