Ant
Man is called a thinking animal and he is intelligent.
There are also intelligent kinds among the animals and insects. The elephant is one of them and the ant is another.
Wise men who have watched and studied the ants for a long time have proved that they are very wise and clever.
There are many kinds of ants living in different parts of the world. Their habits are also different.
There are many kinds of ants. There are very powerful ants, every large and strong, having powerful jaws and poisonous stings.
Some of the ants in Africa and America travel in vast armies of their kind. They drive the native in fear of their villages. But there are very small and harmless ants also.
Like men who live in group, ants also live in large groups. They build their ant towns, below the earth.Some of them construct big mounds like small hilts known as ant hills. They Make galleries and rooms inside and live in them.
All the nests built by the ants are occupied by the females who lay eggs.
Most of the ants who are neither male nor female, do all the work of the nest. These workers are divided into two classes, the soldiers who protect the nest and make war with other kinds of ants, and the workers who are busily feeding the young ones, fetching food, digging building,carrying burdens and cleaning.
Those ants are always busy doing something or other and running about doing some work or other.
Those who have watched the ants found that they too keep slaves. The soldiers go and make war on another nest. They fight with the other ants, enter their nest, capture and carry on the baby anti. They feed these baby ants in their own nest and make them work for them as slaves.
There is an insect called the green fly which spoils the roses. The green fly gives a very sweet juice that is liked by the ants. So, the ants capture the green flies and keep them in their nests. They milk them regularly for their sweet juice.
Some ants work like farmers. They grow their food in the nests. They gather leaves and keep them in heaps in their nests. A kind of fungus will grow from these leaves.
The ants are very fond of this fungus as food.
Ants are very busy creatures and they are never idle. They are very active and intelligent. We have to learn many things from the group life of the ants. King Solomon said, “so to the ants you lazy men; learn her way and be wise.”
