GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -By cooperating, ants can do amazing things, like dig huge nests, use their bodies to form rafts or bridges, sew leaves together, or farm other insects for food! Some scientists say that a colony of ants acts like one single animal.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ants engaged in parabiotic associations cooperate in a variety of ways including shared nest defense, trophallaxis, and communal use of trail pheromones.

Detailed explanation-3: -While army is the most common collective noun for ants, a group of ants is also called a colony, nest, or swarm.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ants also form mutualisms with plants, for example by protecting plants from herbivores (like elephants), cleaning parasitic fungi off of plants’ leaves, or dispersing plant seeds. The seeds of bloodroot plants have special structures called elaiosomes that ants like to eat.