Source: thekittycitygazette.com
Ants can lift an object up to fifty times their body-weight and carry it over their heads. They don't do this with their feet, but with their mouths.
For every human in the world there are one million ants.
When the only queen ant dies, so does the entire colony, because no new workers are born.
The brain of an ant has about 250,000 brain cells.
A leaf-cutter ant queen mates only once - just before establishing a new colony.
She can then keep the sperm viable for up to 15 years and produce as many as 300 million offspring.
The study of ants is called Myrmecology.
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The sense of smell of an ant is just as good as a dog's is.
Ants don't sleep.
Ants began farming about 50 million years before humans thought to raise their own crops.
An ant has two stomachs, in one stomach it stores food for itself and in the other it stores food that is to be shared with other ants.
Adult ants are unable to swallow solid food. They depend on the juice they are able to squeeze out from pieces of food.
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.
They can learn to go through a maze with 10 false turns.
They have been observed making dirt bridges to cross repelling strips.
