ECOLOGY
CHEMICAL CYCLES
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A colony of ants
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The grass and ducks and fish at a pond
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The grass and ducks and fish and rocks and water in a pond
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An ant
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Detailed explanation-1: -The term “ant colony” refers to a population of workers, reproductive individuals, and brood that live together, cooperate, and treat one another non-aggressively. Often this comprises the genetically related progeny from a single queen, although this is not universal across ants.
Detailed explanation-2: -One single ant colony may consist of up to 20 million individual animals.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ants have a cosmopolitan distribution. They are found on all continents except Antarctica, and only a few large islands, such as Greenland, Iceland, parts of Polynesia and the Hawaiian Islands lack native ant species.
Detailed explanation-4: -With regards to their occurrence, several studies have found that ant mounds exhibit a clustered distribution (Risch et al.
Detailed explanation-5: -A group of ants is called a colony, or sometimes an army. Ants are a social insect, and live in large groups that have one ‘queen’ ant, and many ‘worker’ ants that are responsible for foraging for food, as well as caring for the queen and her offspring.