Do ants have ear?

Instead of hearing through auditory canals, ants "hear" by feeling vibrations in the ground. Special sensors on their feet and on their knees help ants interpret signals from their surroundings. They also use their antennae and the hairs on their body to feel around while foraging for food.
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Can ants hear me?

Ants are similar to many other insects in that they possess senses such as hearing, touch and smell. Although hearing is very different in ants than animals that typically have ears, ants do possess the capability to hear.
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Do ants hear your voice?

It is well known that ants do not respond to sound on a human scale. You can shout at an ant and it doesn't seem to notice. Yet many ant species communicate by means of squeaking sounds from a stridulatory organ on the ant's body, consisting of a washboard-like set of ridges and a scraper.
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How do ants listen?

Scientists have known for decades that ants use a variety of small chemicals known as pheromones to communicate. Perhaps the most classic example is the trail of pheromones the insects place as they walk. Those behind them follow this trail, leading to long lines of ants marching one by one.
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Do ants have a heart?

Ants do not breathe like we do. They take in oxygen through tiny holes all over the body called spiracles. They emit carbon dioxide through these same holes. The heart is a long tube that pumps colorless blood from the head throughout the body and then back up to the head again.
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Do 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. Third, does the gas an insect produces come out of its anus? Probably.
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Do ants pee?

No, ants do not pee. In fact, most insects don't pee. All the waste that needs to be expelled comes out of one hole as one waste. Their poops aren't wholly solid, though, because there is a moistness to them due to liquid content.
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Do ants sleep?

YES, THEY DO - but not in the sense we understand sleep. Research conducted by James and Cottell into sleep patterns of insects (1983) showed that ants have a cyclical pattern of resting periods which each nest as a group observes, lasting around eight minutes in any 12-hour period.
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Can ants feel pain?

As far as entomologists are concerned, insects do not have pain receptors the way vertebrates do. They don't feel 'pain,' but may feel irritation and probably can sense if they are damaged. Even so, they certainly cannot suffer because they don't have emotions.
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Do ants kiss when they meet?

It's Communication. Talk about intimate communication. Researchers have found that ants pass along chemical signals with their nest mates by sharing saliva.
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Are ants blind?

Compared to vertebrates, ants tend to have blurrier eyesight, particularly in smaller species, and a few subterranean taxa are completely blind. However, some ants, such as Australia's bulldog ant, have excellent vision and are capable of discriminating the distance and size of objects moving nearly a meter away.
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Do ants like music?

From the data that has been collected thus far, it is concluded that it is not so much the beat or the tempo of the music that affected the ants as we thought, but it was the decibel level that affected them the most.
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Do ants have brains?

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 hate loud noises?

Re: Are ants noise sensitive? Noise only affects them if its very loud. Vibration is more harmful. To avoide vibration dont place them too close to your speakers.
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Do ants talk?

As well as communicating via pheromones, sound and touch, ants talk to each other by exchanging liquid mouth-to-mouth in a process called trophallaxis.
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Do ants have friends?

A recent study shows that aggressive colonies of army ants can be cooperative when they have to. If the queen of one colony dies, the colony will attempt to assimilate itself into another.
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Are ants intelligent?

Still, even though bees may be smarter, ants are among the top most intelligent insects. One study showed that ants possess the ability to use tools – which is a common way to assess intelligence.
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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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Can ants see?

This means their eyes have multiple lenses, but in general, most species of ant do not have particularly great eyes for seeing very far. Ants can detect movement and see the areas around them, but rely more on senses and information they get from their legs and antennae than from their eyes.
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Do ants know fear?

No, ants are not afraid of people – they don't feel fear, and it's possible that they might not even know what we are. Ants can sense danger though which makes them run when something threatens them, as people tend to do.
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What color blood Do ants have?

The short answer is ants have something similar to blood, but scientists call it “haemolymph”. It is yellowish or greenish.
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Do ants eat human poop?

Ants will, in general, eat protein. If you have swarms of ants in your dog run, for instance, they are probably eating the feces, because it is rich in protein.
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Do ants get drunk on sugar?

Yes, ants can get drunk. Alcohol affects ants just like it affects humans. Their behavior changes, they'll struggle walking and they most likely won't really know what's going on. If ants come across alcoholic beverages or substances with a lot of sugar in them, they'll drink it, as ants are very attracted to sugar.
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