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ately, preferring to return home, and leaving scent tracks. When they ar-
rive home, they warn their nest mates by moving their bodies back and
forth, and touching the antennae of the other ants with their own an-
tennae. With this smart tactic, reinforcements are gathered for the fight-
ing workers.
Apart from ordinary sieges during the day, the ants become so ag-
gressive during a famine that they may destroy each other completely.
One colony may destroy another completely within 10-14 days.
Another cause of war is one colony entering the territory of another.
Ants mark their territories with a pheromone. When another colony
comes to the area, it notices this pheromone and normally does not set-
tle here. But if it does, this will be a cause of war.
In such situations, for instance, weaver ants run to the nearest leaf
while leaving a secretion behind. When they find their nest mates, they
tell them about the fight by their movements. Their mates start moving
upon this invitation and travel towards the war zone following the work-
ers. In half an hour, more than one hundred ants reach the arena.
In short, ant colonies lead a sophisticated existence with their natur-
al boundaries, security and information systems against danger and
armies that are strong enough to defend the whole colony. To found
such a system and to have the colony members adopt the system, an in-
telligent and conscious will and education are needed. Yet, there is no
apparent planner and no apparent education. The system has been de-
signed by an invisible will and has been bestowed upon all ants when
they first arrive on earth. In other words, Allah Who has created the ants
has chosen a complex defence system for them and has inspired in the
ants the program needed for performance of this system.
Now let us see the details of this system, which is an open system of
creation.

Defence Tactics

In wars among different colonies, there are certain tactics resorted to
by ants. They walk about with legs stretched out in a stiltlike posture
while lifting their heads and abdomens and occasionally inflating their
abdomens to a slight degree. The total effect is to make each ant appear
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