Ants have amazed me since I was very young. Easily one of the most successful species on the planet. And like humans, able to completely transform their landscape. Like humans, sometimes for the worse, eventually threatening other species and themselves.
I think people often assume all of nature lives in balance, when in fact it doesn't. I think ants could teach us a lot about ourselves and our world.
I once heard a statistic that said that if you measured all the mass of land animals (anything but flora I suppose, when defining 'animal'), one tenth of the weight be be in ants alone. Considering how much one ant weighs, that's insane!
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