Ants work together to capture prey that is bigger than they are; they can call up extra workers when an abundant food source is discovered; they can defend a colony by repelling invaders.

蚂蚁一起工作去扑食比它们大的猎物。一旦发现丰富的食物来源，他们就会召集其它蚂蚁。

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In a twelve-year programme of work, Ryabko and Reznikova have found evidence that ants can transmit very complex messages.

在一项长达12年的研究中，利亚布克和列兹尼科娃发现了蚂蚁可以传递非常复杂信息的证据。

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Hoelldobler and Wilson's magnificent work for ant lovers, The Ants, describes a supercolony of the ant Formica yessensis on the Ishikari Coast of Hokkaido.

《蚂蚁》是 Hoelldobler 和 Wilson 为蚂蚁爱好者所创作的杰出作品，这部作品描述了北海道石狩湾海岸上的一个超级蚁群——石狩红蚁。

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Robert Cruikshank's 1818 etching "A Dandy Fainting" caricatures a roomful of corseted young gents, presenting them as boneless alien forms akin to Aesop's grasshoppers, playing all day while the ants work.

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He had no argument with its work on bees, wasps, and ants, he said.

NEWYORKER: It Ain��t Necessarily So

The most conspicuously selfless are the social insects, the ants, bees and wasps in which most individuals work tirelessly for the good of the colony and never reproduce themselves.

ECONOMIST: Bill Hamilton