Ants don’t have lungs. They don’t have blood. Ants have
two stomachs: one for their own sustenance, and one to store food to share with fellow ants. Most ants can't swim. But they can survive in water for surprisingly
long periods. Some species form rafts to survive flooding. When ants fight,
they usually fight to the death. Fossil evidence suggests there were ants
during the Jurassic period, which means ants may have roamed the earth before
the tyrannosaurus, triceratops, or velociraptor. Ants can be found on every
continent except Antarctica, and I’ll bet there’s at least one colony there,
hiding in the pantry of some research station. This time last year, I was
fighting a war with sugar ants in my own pantry. They’d found a bag of dogfood and
decided to move in. We reached a cease fire, but there were casualties on both
sides. Now, I’m waiting to see if they’re ready to resume hostilities.
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