Yes, it is true... Ants are sentient creatures. They also share an IMMENSE amount of traits with humans. |
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Frying ants is the best!!! Dude, i could go to town on an antpile for hours. Theres so many of them!!! On my cousins' farm we shoot hunting rifles at 2 foot high ant piles and watch them explode. Good fun. The cow-pie mushrooms make it even better Pour lighter fluid on them and cook marshmellows, brewski in my left hand. This is takin me back to the good ol' days. |
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Haha, imagine if ants built an actual dirt castle...that'd be an odd sight. |
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You forgot something--some ants make slaves of other ant species that they conquer. |
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Oh... I've never heard of that before. But that does add to the list of human similarities. |
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Yeah, I have a new respect for ants after seeing them in action. |
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I saw an ant war when i was kid, im telling you it was *fights the temtpation to go SPARTAAA* awesome! |
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My brother and I debated over this very issue a few weeks ago. He thinks that ants and all insects are practically plants and don't have conscious experiences. I completely disagree. The complexity of their behaviors, which several people have talked about in this thread, makes me think that consciousness would be necessary for all of those tasks to be performed. One of the most complex and bizarre things ants do is raid the colonies of ants of a different color (much like humans), steal larvae, bring the larvae back to their own colonies and raise the newborn ants of the different color to be their slaves. I'm completely serious. I saw it on a nature show recently. Here's a link... |
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Man, I saw an episode on ants once done by David Attenborough. Firstly I don't get how they got a camera in there so well, but anyway, ants build connecting chambers of all sorts and one of those chambers is specifically for the dead. They pile in their dead ants there. To use as building material or what?? |
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Ants are racist. The black ones always fight the red ones. |
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Maybe they have a collective consciousness. based on pheromones or something... |
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oh another thing ants do. If you put say 10 ants in a bowl of water, they will swim toward each other and then hold onto each other to make a round shape. If it's a lot of ants. They will form a ball. This seems to be a way to make a better flotation device, so at least some dont drown. |
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If you give ants a large piece of food, that they cannot carry or cut, for example a candy, and you put it on soil, than the ants will bury it by covering it with dirt. |
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Ants are brilliant. Did you know that in wars, they even have spies? Somehow they can mimic the smell of the other colony they are fighting or something. |
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Yes, this is true. When my older dog was killed, her companion (whom she raised) stopped eating, and just sat under a tree, looking at her burial site. It was a good thing he had another dog to comfort him... Else he would have died. |
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Ants have not got a collective intelligence, however their behavior is somewhat more complex then other animals. |
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just for the record, we are Sapient. |
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LOL. The term is sentient. Sapient refers to homo sapiens ability to rationalize, make religion, etc. Ants are one of the most sentient creatures on the planet. DEAL WITH IT. I'll bet you got that off of wikipedia. Well, if you hadn't noticed, the article was so wrong, and SOO F*cked up, it sayed at the top that it would need a complete re-write. |
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I didn't say that they weren't. I'm not even wrong. We are sapient. Just about every mammal is sentient. Sentient means aware. |
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This is religions terrestrial scale: |
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avoiding a religious discussion, are you saying I am wrong to call us Sapient? |
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