Who are small animals? What did they look like? Where did they live? The army ant is one of these. This animal is very small and to it, is difficult to survive alone but when it is with the others ants they are more dangerous.

    There are many ants but the army ant it is like this. They have three parts that are small balls of about 1mm of diameter, the names of this three parts are the head, the thorax and the abdomen. The mouth of the army ant has two jaws that they’re like scissors. It has six legs. It is very strong, it can carry about 20 times their weight. The eyes are made of many smaller eyes and the abdomen contends 2 stomachs.

    Their diet is smaller and non-social anthropods, some small vertebrates, and vegetable matter. The army ants of Africa species even consume large mammals. They can find this aliments near to the anthill. They live in the heavily forested areas, in this parts are the anthill. In the amazon it colony can have approx. 700000.

    They survive all together when they are older. But the younger survive the anthill. The older search for aliment. How many ants put eggs? The only army ant that put eggs is the queen. It can put about 55000 eggs each day. They’re many but they don’t live to much. They only live around 45 to 60 days.

To protect their self they live under the floor and they had jaws but they aren’t powerful.

    They don’t have a predator and they reproduce to fast, so they aren’t end angered. They are very intelligent and you know that when you see how organized they are.40000 army ants have the same brain cells that a human has. A human has 10000 millions and each army ant has 250000 brain cells.

     Many humans thinks that ants must be killed, but they don’t know how intelligent they are, how fast they reproduce and many others things, so the army ant is a strange animal because it’s so small but it has many interesting characteristics. So remember these facts were you are going to kill an ant.

Bibliography:

-www.insecta-inspecta.com/ants/army/

-http://bss.sfsu.edu:224/courses/Spring99Projects/ants.htm

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/eciton/e._burchelli

http://www.mnhe.com/bisci/genbio/marderbio6e/outlines/ch22out.mhtml

-http://www.lingolex.com/ants.htm