A Day in the Life of an Ant

The ant is an amazing insect. They may be small, but they pack a lot of “brains”. According to Insect Vista, they have the largest brain in proportion to its size. Ants are also mean workhorses, they can carry about 50 times their own weight. I am also fascinated by their way of communicating with each other, so they won’t get lost whenever they gather food. They leave scent “trails” for others to follow.

I tried to “break” their scent train once by rubbing water over it. Some of them wandered away from the trail, but eventually got back in line after a while as they may have made a new “trail”.

In the Disney/Pixar animated film “A Bugs Life“, it showed how ants work together to achieve something big.

 

One Response to “A Day in the Life of an Ant”

  1. 3:31 pm on March 16 2011, Louie S. said:

    Good evening.
    Nice thoughts you have there and yes they are truly amazing.
    However, not many people can appreciate their ways and their tight relationship to each other as a member of their community.

    If we can see and adopt the way of this ants into us Filipinos; surely, we can improve our capacities, disciplines and our respective point of views into such things.

    But sadly, it is rare to find such Filipinos like this.
    Mostly, we are under the ‘Money Greed’ and ‘Power Hunger’.
    Why? Because we all like to be ahead of our race.
    We are already practicing ‘Crab Mentality’ without even knowing it.
    Like the word that blocks mind of people “Ganun talaga ang sistema satin e”.

    With your published article, how about we convert these beliefs from ‘Crab Mentality’ to ‘Ant Mentality’.
    Where in our community and ways of living would be patterned from them.

    Actually sir, I adore your way of teaching.

    Not that I am against to the phrase that “The Youth is the Hope” / “Kabataan pag-asa ng bayan”. But there is something missing, we need a good informer not good but a true informer where in he/she can relay true information to us students so we can have a good base to accord all the things happening here. “Bulag” na kase ang tingin ko sa ibang mga gustong magbangon sa Pilipinas. They are just relying on the old written beliefs, if revolution was the answer before then education is the way now. “Welga / Protest” ? What can it bring to us?

    Without these said informers or professors, youth is just fighting for what they are told for and not for what they are believing for. This is the reason maybe why most of them are not successful in upbringing good life for Filipinos.

    Kaya sa tingin ko, nasa maayos na pag tuturo parin ng mga guro ang paraan. Sa paraang ipinapaintindi ang mga bagay-bagay, minomoderate ang mga bagay-bagay at binibigyan sila ng pag kakataong matutunan ang mga pinaniniwalaan nila.

    Haha dame ko nasabe sir, sumisilab ang aking pagiging pagiging makabayan haha.

    People are already aware, I myself can be an example of an individual that is already aware of what is happening. Kung “Tanga” ang Pilipino dati pagdating sa pamumuhay at pulitika ibahin nila ngayon.
    For what I can conclude, they see these acts stupid if it is from outside the government activities.
    Yun lang hoho

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