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Practice each question, then open the answer or worked solution.
How did the ant know that the other ants were not from this group?
Answer: Animals also have different senses. They can see, hear, taste, smell and feel. By using these senses, the ants could identify that the other ants were not from this group.
How did the guard ant recognize this ant?
Answer: By using its smelling sense, the guard ant could recognize this ant.
Try this and write
Drop some sugar, jaggery or anything sweet on the ground. Wait until the ants come there.
Q1. How long did it take for the ants to come?
Answer: Within minutes, the ants surrounded the dropped sweets.
Q2. Did one ant come first or a group of ants came together?
Answer: A single ant came first, and then a group of ants followed it.
What did the ants do with the food?
Answer: The ants carried away the food to its hole.
Where do they go from there?
Answer: The ants went back to their hole from there.
Do they move in a line?
Answer: Yes, one ant follows the other and hence goes in a line.
Now carefully, without harming the ants, block their path for a while with a pencil.
Now observe, how do the ants move?
Answer: Even after blocking their path, the ants climb up the pencil and move in a straight line.
Now can you guess why the ants behaved like that when you blocked their path?
Answer: As the ants move, they leave a smell on the ground. The other ants follow the smell to find the way. So when their path was blocked, the ants tried to keep their path by following the smell.
Have you ever been troubled by mosquitoes? Just think, how do they know where you are?
Answer: Mosquitoes can sense the smell of a human body. They also find us by the smell of the sole of our feet and the heat of our body.