English Class
An Animal Called Ant.
Fachry Ardani
People define ant as the smallest animal on earth. Although they are small, ants almost colonized almost every landmass on earth. Ants are very social insect, they form a group to build their own nest and search for foods while most of each nests consisted of one ant queen on every colony and thousands of ant workers.
Most of the humans consider ant as a diligent and genius creatures, but apparently we have been looking at ant intelligence the wrong way. Insects certainly display complex and apparently intelligent behavior. They navigate over long distances, find food, avoid predators, communicate, display courtship, care for their young, and so on (Wystrach, 2013). Ant is one of them; they used a variety of methods to navigate sun position, direction, slope, ground texture. They also work together to search for foods, nest and information by building coordination between their groups.
With all of their intelligences, do you ever think that someday ants might rule the world? Scientists estimate that about 20,000 ant species crawl the Earth. Taxonomists have classified more than 11,000 species, which account for at least one-third of all insect biomass (Binns, 2006). Ant existed an evolved since 120 million years ago and they rule because of many different ways based on the types of ants. Talking about the types of ants, they are varied from the appearances and the size based on their types. One can be as small as Oligomyrmex atomus which is about as tiny as the millimeter long or as big as Dinoponera which sized about 1.5 inch long. These variations of ants which made them diverse, they have a variance of color from yellow to black, they exist on the desert, rain forest, or even swamps. That is why we could say that ants rule the world, in a different way.
There is several typical ants’ daily life based on their environment and habitats. Some species of carpenter ants construct defensive shelters around the base of
Fachry Ardani
People define ant as the smallest animal on earth. Although they are small, ants almost colonized almost every landmass on earth. Ants are very social insect, they form a group to build their own nest and search for foods while most of each nests consisted of one ant queen on every colony and thousands of ant workers.
Most of the humans consider ant as a diligent and genius creatures, but apparently we have been looking at ant intelligence the wrong way. Insects certainly display complex and apparently intelligent behavior. They navigate over long distances, find food, avoid predators, communicate, display courtship, care for their young, and so on (Wystrach, 2013). Ant is one of them; they used a variety of methods to navigate sun position, direction, slope, ground texture. They also work together to search for foods, nest and information by building coordination between their groups.
With all of their intelligences, do you ever think that someday ants might rule the world? Scientists estimate that about 20,000 ant species crawl the Earth. Taxonomists have classified more than 11,000 species, which account for at least one-third of all insect biomass (Binns, 2006). Ant existed an evolved since 120 million years ago and they rule because of many different ways based on the types of ants. Talking about the types of ants, they are varied from the appearances and the size based on their types. One can be as small as Oligomyrmex atomus which is about as tiny as the millimeter long or as big as Dinoponera which sized about 1.5 inch long. These variations of ants which made them diverse, they have a variance of color from yellow to black, they exist on the desert, rain forest, or even swamps. That is why we could say that ants rule the world, in a different way.
There is several typical ants’ daily life based on their environment and habitats. Some species of carpenter ants construct defensive shelters around the base of
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