Do ants have slaves?

Six-legged slave drivers
These so-called “dulotic” or slave-making ants specialise in robbing brood from other species. This happens during regular raiding events in which slave-making ants attack neighbouring ant nests
ant nests
formicary (plural formicaries) An ant colony, a pile of earth built by ants in which they nest.
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, slaughter the adults and carry their unborn young home to their nest.

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Do ants keep other ants as slaves?

Every summer, blood-red ants of the species Formica sanguinea go on a mission to capture slaves. They infiltrate the nest of another ant species, like the peaceful F. fusca, assassinate the queen, and kidnap the pupae to raise as the next generation of slaves.

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Are ants at war with each other?

Large ant colonies with tens or hundreds of thousands of members engage in all-out war with other colonies as they compete for resources.

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Do any animals enslave?

Slavery is widespread among certain ants in the United States and has even altered the genetic and chemical diversity of enslaved ant victims, a new study finds. Some bees, wasps, beetles, crickets and other creatures also either enslave or trick others to do their work, showing the behavior persists in nature.

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Do ants engage in cannibalism?

Although social insects often eat their own eggs, larvae and pupae, cannibalism against corpses of adults is considered quite rare in ants.

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The Horror of the Slaver Ant

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Are ants aware of death?

To the naked eye, ants deal with their dead much like humans. When a member of the colony dies, the carcass will lie where it fell for a period of roughly two days. In the fashion of a wake, this time period presumably gives the other ants time to pay their respects to their fallen comrade.

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Can ants survive a nuke?

In an experiment a powerful radioactive source (sufficient to kill humans in short order) was left by a nest of common European black ants. After a long period (some weeks or months I think) most of the surrounding plant matter had died but the ants were seemingly completely unaffected.

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Is owning a dog a form of slavery?

Pet animals can be, and are, harmed in many ways, and our treatment of them is often abominable. They may be our victims, but they are not slaves. Even though pets cannot have their autonomy compromised, it is true that their preference liberty is almost always restricted to some degree.

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Do ants take revenge?

Ants are good at communicating, and an ant dying lets its fellow colony members know about death. What is this? Ants, however, do not come to the scene of death to attack you or seek revenge. On the contrary, ants come near the dead and as a response to any danger.

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Did slaves have dogs?

Although some slaves themselves had companion animals, slaveholding states often criminalized black dog ownership on the grounds that it constituted possession of a weapon.

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Why do ants kiss when passing each other?

Social insects communicate mouth-to-mouth. If you've ever watched ants, you've probably noticed their tendency to "kiss," quickly pressing their mouths together in face-to-face encounters. That's how they feed each other and their larvae.

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How intelligent are ants?

Individual ants have tiny brains but together the many ants of a colony can exhibit remarkable 'intelligence'. Ants exhibit complex and apparently intelligent behaviour; they can navigate over long distances, find food and communicate, avoid predators, care for their young, etc.

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Do ants have loyalty?

Ants are very loyal to their own colony, but they can be quite nasty toward outsiders. Competition among colonies for food and other resources often leads to aggression. Many species establish a territory around their nest that is off-limits to neighboring ants.

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Do ants feel lonely?

In the insect world, it's usually butterflies that are associated with social behavior, but according to a new study it's ants that really can't live without their peers … literally. Discovery News reports that ants died after just 6 days of isolation, whereas the socially integrated controls lived for up to 66 days.

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Do ants feel physical pain?

Over 15 years ago, researchers found that insects, and fruit flies in particular, feel something akin to acute pain called “nociception.” When they encounter extreme heat, cold or physically harmful stimuli, they react, much in the same way humans react to pain.

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Why are ants killing each other?

If a colony perceives that there is a threat of losing resources, of losing territory, from either another species of ants or another colony of the same species, then that threat develops an organized aggressive response, which might sometimes lead to an actual battle.

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Why should we not squish ants?

It is advised not to squash ants, doing so will only release pheromones and trigger more ants to come to the location and cause more trouble to you and your family. Ants are known to pack a deadly bite that causes excruciating pain for a short time.

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Does killing ants make it worse?

It makes sense that you want to wipe them out the moment you spot them in your house. However, this might be the beginning of your troubles. Killing ants will, definitely, attract more ants because the dead ants release pheromones that attract or rather alert, nearby ants.

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Do ants get sad when another ant dies?

Ants become the pallbearer

After a few days the dead ant is carried off and placed on the “ant graveyard” by the other dead ants. This may seem like ants have complex feelings and need a few days to grieve before they dispose of the body, but in reality it's far more chemical than that.

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What religion can you not have a dog?

The majority of both Sunni and Shi'a Muslim jurists consider dogs ritually unclean. It is uncommon for practicing Muslims to keep dogs as pets.

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Did dogs used to be humans?

Dogs were just a loose category of wolves until around 15,000 years ago, when our ancestors tamed and began to manage them. We fed them, bred them, and spread them from continent to continent. While other wolf descendants died out, dogs grew into a new species. We invented the dog.

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Is it morally wrong to own a pet?

It is only ethical to keep an animal as a pet if both the animal's biological and psychological needs are properly catered for.

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Can ants become zombies?

The fungus Ophiocordyceps camponoti-floridani can infect ants and manipulate their behaviour in a way that is beneficial for fungus growth and transmission. These infected ants are also called zombie ants. Influenced by the fungus, the ants climb to a high point and bite into a branch, attaching themselves until death.

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How many ants could lift a human?

It would take several hundred ants to pick up each pound of the person. So you'd need to know the person's weight and then multiply that by 200 to 300 ants.

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How many ants would it take to beat a human?

On the conservative side, there are some 2.5 million ants for every person on Earth. Who would win in a fight, you or 2.5 million ants?

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