Ants Can Literally Build Bridges Without Training, And You Can Watch Them in Action

Despite only having around 250,000 neurons compared to our 86 billion, ants can still achieve impressive feats when they team up. For starters, they're experts at avoiding traffic jams – a skill we humans could certainly benefit from – and in

They achieve theirEach individual ant makes an average ofAntsto carry hard-to-relocate food such as liquids. They place debris such as dirt particles and leaves into the liquid and then carry the soaking tool back to their nest. Others have taken this further by using debris piles and paths as siphon tubes to reduce their risk of drowning.

What's more, the ants were even able to build a soil 'bridge' across a surface smeared with a type of essential balm, considered to beUniversity of Georgia entomologist Haolin Zeng highlighted one industrious worker ant during its mesmerizing bridge-building contribution on Twitter. Here is a worker ant"paving" in real-time ; you can see her picking up the gravel, carrying it to the tape, putting it down, & doing it again.

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