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into another colony’s territory by mistake, this becomes a declaration of
war. In such a situation, explorer ants come back to the nest right away
and close the nest entrance and all colony members come together to
defend their colonies against danger.
Then, how do the ants feed during this fight, when they have no op-
portunity to bring in food?
At this point, a feature of the ants that distinguishes them from oth-
er living beings emerges. During this period when they cannot search
for food, all colony members feed on the food stored in the crops of
young workers.
In fact, this sharing technique is one they use all their lives, and not
only at special times. Ants not only carry the food globules stored in
their bodies, but they feed each other mouth to mouth. Once a hunter
returns home loaded with liquid food, it shakes its head to the right and
left to attract the attention of its mates standing still or goes directly to
its mates and presents the food globule in its fully opened jaw to them. 84
This liquid food exchange, done by a reflux from the crop which pro-
vides quick distribution of the food to the colony is, in fact, quite an im-
pressive example of sharing. Also husks and seeds brought to the nest
are consumed as well by all of the ants together. Thus, the food re-
quirement of the whole colony is satisfied without any problems.
This system is one that makes it necessary to admit of the existence
of a supreme designer. It is a reality that a chain of random events can-
not form such a storage system so complex and requiring great sacrifice.
What is more, each ant comes to this world knowing this system. That
is, the necessity to share its food has been ingrained in it before its birth
and not after. Not only has this sense of sacrifice been inspired in it, but
because a special mechanism is needed to present the food it has saved
in its crop, its body structure has been designed to make this shar-
ing possible. This sharing event realized among ant colonies
once again renders the word "chance" insufficient or
even meaningless, due to the sense of self-sacrifice
being much in evidence. As we have emphasized
many times before, the theory of evolution as-
sumes the existence of a full-fledged competi-
tion and life struggle among all living

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