《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。

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.

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它直入云天，躯干上爬满了一群稳步前行的蚂蚁，每一只都扛着一个闪光的霓虹数字。

It reached unending into the sky and its trunk was alive with an army of marching ants, each of them carrying a glowing neon digit.

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仅仅一只蚂蚁干不了什么，但是一群蚂蚁作为一个整体就可以解决一些复杂的问题，比如说建造并维护一个精致复杂的巢穴并在里面储存食物。

A single ant cannot do much on its own, but the colony as a whole solves complex problems such as building a sophisticated nest, maintaining it and filling it with food.

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