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How Does Living in a Group Affect Ants?

The most obvious example of cooperation among ants is in the be-
haviour of a worker ant species called Lasius emarginatus. The individ-
uals of this species have interesting affiliations with each other. The ac-
tivities of four worker ants belonging to the group that works with earth
go on when they are separated from the big group. However, when
there is a substance, like glass or stone in between which prevents them
from seeing each other, their rate of work slows down.
Another example is that when the fire ants are separated from their
groups by a thin barrier, they try to reach the other members of their
colony by piercing this obstruction.
Many variations occur also in the behaviour of ants when the num-
ber of individuals in the group changes. When the number of ants in the
nest increases, it is observed that the activity of each one of the indi-
viduals also proportionally increases. When the worker ants come to-
gether as a group, they get together, calm down and spend less energy.
It has been determined that as the population increases in some ant
species, there is a drop in the amount of oxygen spent.
What all these examples show us is that ants cannot survive on their
own. These small creatures have been created with characteristics that
allow them to live only in groups or even colonies. And this proves to
us how out of touch with reality are the claims by the evolutionists with
regard to the socializing process of ants. It is impossible for the ants to
have been living alone when they were first created and to have social-
ized later on to form colonies. It would have been impossible for an ant
facing such an environment to have survived. It would have had to re-
produce, to build a nest for itself and its larvae, to feed both itself and
its family, be a doorman, be a soldier and also a worker who took care
of the larvae… We cannot claim that all these jobs requiring an exten-
sive division of labour could have been performed once upon a time by
a single ant or even a few ants. Furthermore, it is impossible to think
that they worked hard towards socialization while performing these
mundane tasks.
What is deduced from all this is the following: Ants are creatures who
have been living under a social system and in groups since the day they

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