What can we learn from the ant? As funny as this question may sound, there a lot of things to be learned from ants and demand a verdict. There are depths of answers, teachings and lessons to this question that may surprise you about the ant. These are basic, yet in depth observations about the ant.
There are many researchers around the globe daily discovering new Knowledgeable and technological facts about the ant. Fascinating!! It seems like the more they study them, the more they discover the similarities between the ant and man's ways.
One interesting thing about the ant attributes is that, if one ant possesses a certain trait, it goes for all ants of the same specie unlike humans whose characters differ from each other.
Let's take a quick look at some unique qualities of the ant that humans can learn from:
Ants work hard. That's a trait that almost everyone knows. I've hardly ever seen an ant that's not moving. Always moving, always looking for something to do.
Ants feed one another in the most caring way. Whenever an ant finds food, it goes back to inform the others and they all come and carry it. It doesn't stay there and eat the food before going back to call others. It's one trait humans should learn. Humans would wanna have their one share first before telling anyone. Its called greed.
Ants work alongside. They always work side by side with each other. No gripes or fights. You hardly ever see ants from the same colony fight each other, rather they team up to fight intruders, unlike humans. Siblings can invite a third party to harm themselves just to prove a point.
Ants have incredible strength. Ratio to man, ants can pick up objects 50 times their own size and may times their weight. That's super strength!! Imagine if ants were as big as humans, they'd be lifting cars with ease.
Ants are very creative. Consider an ant carrying a piece of stick to use as a bridge when encountering an obstacle. That's high level IQ. Most animals don't think that way. And a close look into their holes, you can see how orderly their foods are arranged.
Ants are excellent farmers. They create their own fungus type food that is designed to be absorbed very cleverly into their stomach.
Anta protect each other. Ants are known to protect one another even onto death. That's extreme and I have experienced that before. A small sugar ant can wrestle with a soldier ant just because he is trying to protect his own. They fight to the death just to protect their queen and her eggs. How many of us can protect our siblings with our lives?
So what can we learn from the ants?
Most people feel offended whenever they see ants on their unwashed plates or cups. The thing is that, ants give us indications on our sometimes carelessness and not being able to dispose food properly or wash up the dishes. Do an ant watch and you'll discover that ants are so impeccably clean with one another.
One of their teachings would be, "a stitch in time saves nine", or " the sooner the better". Whatever the title is, ants know how to finalize things and display patience even in times of adversities.
Ask yourself this question. If for a moment, you were able to fight for the right things in life, and defend another to death, would you? How many of your friends would do same for you?