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Social Behavior of Ants.
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Social Behavior of Ants Ants communicate with each other through tapings with the antennae and smell. They are considered, together with the bees, as one of the most socialized animals. They have a perfect social organization, and each type of individual specializes in a specific activity within the colony. They are thought by many as having a collective intelligence, and each ant is considered then as an individual cell of a bigger organism. The colony is made up of one or more queens and many female workers. During two or three days a year there will also be drones, which seem to have only a reproductive function. The queens are bigger than the workers and the drones. The queens produce particular pheromones, (which are special secreted substances with special smells), that makes the whole colony work and keep together. Each colony has its distinct smell, and all the members of...
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