Ants

The other day I wrote the ants make up 1/5 of the world weight in land animals. Now that's just incredible to Me.

Think about this for a minute. An ant weighs about .004 of a gram. That's four one hundredths of a gram. That's about 26 ants to equal a paper clip. It would take over 100,000 ants to equal a pound. Now imagine that. On one side of a scale you have a pound of butter, and to equal it out on the other side you'd have 100,000 ants! And how many ants to equal an average human? Ohhh around 20 million ants!!!!

They estimate that there is about 10 quadrillion ants in the world today. That's 10,000,000,000,000,000, or 10 with 15 zeros after it. They also estimate that if you weighed all the humans in the world VS all the ants, it would be about a draw. WOW. Pretty impressive since 1 human equals 20 million ants!

So who the hell says humans are the dominant species on earth? Maybe it's ants that have it all figured out. OR .. maybe ants need to start wearing little ant condoms since they make the human population explosion look like NOTHING! What if all the ants were secretly in charge of mother earth? Hiding in their little underground bunkers controlling all that goes on! Dammit I need some weed!

And here's some cool info. Many ants are blind! They can't even see what the fuck they're doing! They find their way by smell and chemicals. Each ant colony has a specific chemical 'odor' (for lack of a better word). They use these smells to tell who's part of their colony, and who is the enemy. Scientist have actually taken a little chunk of wood and doused it in enemy chemicals and put in a jar with ants, and the ants attack it!

Still not impressed? How about the fact that ants can lift up to 50 times their own weight! That's the equivalent of the average human lifting over 9000 lbs!! When's the last time you seen a human walking around with three passenger cars on his back? Or how about the fact that ants fall off your backyard deck onto the concrete patio and just keep going! Again I ask you, when's the last time a human jump off a skyscraper and dusted himself off and kept right on walking? Or that some ants can jump 20 times their body length. How about the fact that an ants trap-jaw can slam shut at around 60mph delivering a force of 300 times their body weight!

I could keep going and going, but a 10 page blog on ants probably doesn't hold much interest .. unless your Me. So I'll end it there. Now I not only wonder what the hell are we doing here on this planet, but what the hell are all the ants doing too!