Do ants have chests?

An ant's body is divided into three main parts: a head section, a chest section and a tummy section.
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Can ants carry a dead body?

Necrophoresis is a sanitation behavior found in social insects – such as ants, bees, wasps, and termites – in which they carry away the dead bodies of members of their colony from the nest or hive area.
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Is there any heart in ant?

Ants, like other insects, have a heart that pumps hemolymph rhythmically.
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Does an ant have a lung?

Ants do not have lungs

Because of their tiny size, ants do not have the room to accommodate a complicated respiratory system like ours. They have their own methods of respiration instead that helps transport oxygen across their bodies.
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Do ants poop?

Yes, ants poop. They have an excretory system that allows them to get rid of the waste produced through digestion. Like humans, an ant's body uses what it needs, and the leftovers come out as poop. Even in insects, waste poses a danger.
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Can ants fart?

Yes. In insects, we usually call it the “gut,” but it does more or less the same things in insects that intestines do in humans.
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Do trees pee?

Trees also excrete water vapour containing various other waste products during this process. While this is an excretion, you may not consider this akin to pooping and peeing, perhaps more like breathing. After all, humans expel carbon dioxide, water vapour and certain other substances while breathing.
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Do ants have red blood?

The reason insect blood is usually yellowish or greenish (not red) is that insects do not have red blood cells. Unlike blood, haemolymph does not flow through blood vessels like veins, arteries and capillaries. Instead it fills the insect's main body cavity and is pushed around by its heart.
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Does ant never sleep?

Ants don't sleep the 8 hours recommended for a human, whereas their sleeping schedule resembles more of a power nap. Many studies have shown that workers in an ant colony take an average of 250 naps per day, each lasting around a minute, or 8 minutes of sleep every 12 hours.
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Do ants feel pain?

Over 15 years ago, researchers found that insects, and fruit flies in particular, feel something akin to acute pain called “nociception.” When they encounter extreme heat, cold or physically harmful stimuli, they react, much in the same way humans react to pain.
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Do ants have brain?

Each ant's brain is simple, containing about 250,000 neurones, compared with a human's billions. Yet a colony of ants has a collective brain as large as many mammals'. Some have speculated that a whole colony could have feelings.
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Do ants have eyesight?

Looking through ant eyes

Ants have compound eyes with many units, called ommatidia. Their eyes look like an array of LEDs you'd see in a traffic light (except in a dome shape). Each ommatidium sees one point in space so the whole eye sees one image but different portions of it.
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Do ants sleep?

A recent study of ants' sleep cycle found that the average worker ant takes approximately 250 naps each day, with each one lasting just over a minute. That adds up to 4 hours and 48 minutes of sleep per day. The research also found that 80 percent of the ant workforce was awake and active at any one time.
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Why should we not squish ants?

It is advised not to squash ants, doing so will only release pheromones and trigger more ants to come to the location and cause more trouble to you and your family. Ants are known to pack a deadly bite that causes excruciating pain for a short time.
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Do ants get sad when another ant dies?

To the naked eye, ants deal with their dead much like humans. When a member of the colony dies, the carcass will lie where it fell for a period of roughly two days. In the fashion of a wake, this time period presumably gives the other ants time to pay their respects to their fallen comrade.
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Do ants mourn dead?

Turns out ants don't really mourn or grieve or even have graveyards for the same reasons we as humans do. It all comes down to chemicals and smells and pheromones.
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Do ants smoke cigarettes?

The simple answer is no, ants do not smoke cigarettes. That very question began to trend on social media after a meme went viral. A Google search indicated the insects are partial to the habit. But - despite internet rumors - ants do not puff on cigarettes.
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Do ants drink water?

Like all animals, ants need water to live, but they are not dependent on larger puddles of water like other insects may be. Many ants get water from the food that they consume. Food and water is also shared with others through a process of regurgitation.
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Do ants cry?

While this might appear to be a strange question, it's actually normal for these insects to “scream”. Well, some asked if, in fact, these insects produce sounds because whenever they use water to eliminate them from their patio, they hear screeching sounds.
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Do ants take prisoners?

Ants practice a primitive form of slavery.

Although the idea of servitude is repugnant, ants continue to enforce slavery on their prisoners. Ants seek out other ants, bring them to their colonies and subject them to performing their duties. Honeypot ants enslave other ants representing the same species.
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Can ants have slaves?

Every summer, blood-red ants of the species Formica sanguinea go on a mission to capture slaves. They infiltrate the nest of another ant species, like the peaceful F. fusca, assassinate the queen, and kidnap the pupae to raise as the next generation of slaves.
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Do ants have tongues?

Taste- Ants do not have a tongue, but they have finger-like palps around the mouth that have the ability to taste.
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How do you pee in the car if you're a girl?

If you are female, pull your pants down around your ankles and squat behind a tree or shrub. If there is no discreet area available, stand behind your open passenger door. Face away from the road. If you are female, pull your pants down around your ankles and squat behind the passenger door.
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Do trees have genders?

Tree flowers can have male parts, female parts, both male and female parts together, or none at all. Some of these parts may or may not be functional. You cannot tell flower function (or gender) just by looking. Trees do not show their gender until they are sexually mature and start to flower.
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