Haha... thought I'd talk a little bout something other than my life for a change. Antz behaviour haha! I've been observing ants crawling ard during duties these last couple of days or weeks just to pass the time as I get really bored sometimes. And I have noticed certain interesting things about the way they function and behave. Well, it was more of me doing some small experiments to see how the ants would respond to the changes rather.
Firstly, I wanted to confirm once again what would happen when the ants' trail was blocked. I had a hypothesis for this though; the ants would stop in their tracks and be confused. Thing is, they would just not continue going forward. However, when I placed my finger on an empty spot of their trail, and rubbed out that part of the trail there, what I saw astonished me. Yes, the ants did stop but they didn't just stand there. Some of them actually continued moving along the part of the trail that was still there... hahas backwards that is! It was really interesting.
On another occasion, I was observing ants which had formed a trail leading to an empty canned drink. I wondered if those little creatures were smart enough to alter their course due to the change in position of their "source of food" and so moved the empty can to another location far out of reach. Haha... I observed that the ants continued along their trail and ended up pooling ard at the spot where their "source of food" had been. Lol... so it was just a big group of ants pooling there, clueless I expect.
When I went back to the can, I noticed that a new trail of ants had already formed there. Wow... it was really very fast lol!
There was another occasion though when I noticed the trails of two lines of ants criss-crossing each other. However, the two separate groups of ants never once got mixed up. Wow... it was really interesting to notice that lol..
I guess the ants were following trails with different scents uh... hahas ain't these interesting?
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