Ant Trivia
Did you know this about Ants....?
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In the Amazon rainforest, ants and termites make up nearly a third of the total animal biomass.
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About 20,000 species of ants are known. Scientists believe at least twice as many species of ants have yet to be discovered.
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The queen ant lays all the eggs in the anthill.
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The queen ant lives up to ten or twenty years.
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Some ants sleep for seven hours a day.
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Some ant nests can have up to three queens.
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Ants can lift 20 times their own body weight.
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When combined, all ants in the world would weigh about as much as all the human beings in the world.
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