Ant Facts

Global Domination

• There are more ants roaming around the world than any other creature on the planet.
• Ants account for 10% of all the animal tissue on earth.
• The combined weight of all the ants on earth would total more than the combined weight of all the humans.
• Despite finding ants in almost every corner of the British Isles, ants usually live in very warm climates. 

Intelligence

• Relative to their size, ants have the largest brain of any insect.
• An ant has 250,000 brain cells, compared to 10 billion for a human.
• It has been calculated that an ant's brain has more processing power than the computer that controlled the first Apollo space missions.
• By studying the behaviour of ants, scientists have discovered that they are capable of finding their way out of very complex mazes.

Food

• Ants are omnivorous, which means that they will eat absolutely anything that is edible.
• Despite having relatively huge and powerful jaws, an adult ant doesn't actually chew it's food. Instead, it squeezes and sucks the juice from it.
• Ants use scent trails to mark out paths to food, so that their fellow ants can easily find their next meal. 

Other

An ant willl usually live for approximately 45-60 days