For 5,000 kilometers, why is ant community so huge?Ant is the most social creature

Ant is a very social creature, but you must not imagine to what extent can this small life social.

At present, there are many known giant ant community in the world. The largest of which is located along the Mediterranean coast. This huge ant community has extended from the western coast of Italy to the northwest of Spain. The community is Argentina ants. What is an ant community? Ant community is not a huge ant hole, but is composed of a large number of ant points together. These ant points will be opened underground, which is connected to a huge community, which means that an ant community is a lot of ants. Formed by the group, each ant colony has its own complete organizational structure, with its own workers, their own soldiers, and their own queen.

Taking the largest ant community in the world as an example, there are millions of ant points that form this community.

How do they cooperate with so many ant colony? So many queens, who will give orders? It is incredible to say it, because no one comes to the order at all. All ants are selflessly dedicated to the interests of the group, thereby creating a perfect social structure with their own duties. Many people have misunderstood the organizational structure of ants. They believe that the Ant Kingdom is the same as human countries. It is organized and directed by a leader or leading group. The ants are equal in terms of status, and the only difference is that they are engaged in work.

The ants who are responsible for childbirth in an ant colony, we call it "queen queen", because of this name, let us misunderstand that the queen is the ruler of the ant colony, but it is not.

Like other ants in the ant colony, the antes are just ordinary members in the group. Its work is to breed offspring. It does not have the ability to give an order to the ant colony, and it will not try to do it. Similarly, the workers in ant colony are not slaves of ant colony. They are equal to the status of other ants, but they are responsible for the work of foraging, breeding cubs, and feeding the queen ants. Bing ants need to feed workers, not because they are deceiving, but because their upper jaw is too developed, so that they can't eat themselves at all, so they can only wait for the workers to feed.

When it comes to soldiers, we all know that the duty of soldiers is to defend the ant colony, but in fact, for the soldiers, the focus of work is not defense, but offensive.

Who is the attack? Other ant colony, and the choice of offensive targets is preferred with the same ant ant colony. Why did the soldiers attack others? Ant is a highly social creature, and in nature, there are many social animals, and the most typical characteristics of sociality are the war of aggression against other groups, and ants are all social animals. The strongest society, so the awareness of offensiveness is also very strong. In the process of fighting, old and weak ants will rush ahead, because they contribute to the smallest contribution to population, and of course no one forced them to do this, they are completely spontaneous.

The war between different ants in the same kind of ants can only be described in four words, that is, "except for the dead."

Is it necessary? It is not necessarily for the interests of the ant colony, so for the interests of the ant colony, different ant colony can also be united. In this case, the two ant colony will be opened underground to form a Ant communities, as more and more ant colonyes joined, the ant community has become bigger and bigger. This is actually a very puzzling thing. There are no leaders or organizers in Ant society, but ants can not only allow the ant hole to run well, but also complete complex diplomatic activities such as aggression and union. In the end Why? Dr. Edward Wilson, the first authority of ant science in the world today, believes that ants can do so because they do not have self -awareness, only group consciousness.

What is self -consciousness and what is group consciousness?

For example, many people in today's society will sway on the question of whether they have fertility, because people think about problems from self -awareness, so that they can't be confused between the pros and cons of fertility. But if it is an ant, the problem becomes much simpler. They only have group consciousness. When facing one thing, they only consider how to do it to be more favorable for the entire population.大到国家、企业，小到一个家庭，如果从群体意识出发，所面临的一切问题其实都非常简单，而很多问题之所以纠缠不清搞得无比复杂，并不是因为事情本身有多复杂，而It is because everyone in the group must first consider the gains and losses of self -consciousness, so things are in a deadlock in the confrontation of interests. Ant is the most social creature in the world, which is stronger than humans. The essence of essence may be as what Dr. Wilson said. They only have group consciousness, so no organizers are needed, everything can be well ordered.

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