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.
Ants communicate and cooperate by using chemicals that can alert others to danger or lead to a promising source of food. One of 10,000 species of ants, leaf-cutting ant moves of a blade over three times its size to the nest. The ants produce glycerol in their mouths during the winter to avoid freezing.
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