yeah, I'm not quite sure how that works

owww, ant bites are the worst.
I used to get into red ants a lot when I was little. Rubbing Listerine on the bites keeps it from stinging

Yeah, it may be the mint or something in the Listerine counteracts their... venom?
I love ants so much. I sporadically collect info about them.

We have a few kinds, but there's basically red, sugar, and black/carpenter. Carpenter ants suck because they eat your house.

I think they lay down a scent trail that the others follow while traveling. That's why they can get confused if you block the trail. I think the "head bonking" is an exchange of hormones, which is how they primarily communicate.

In the campgrounds I used to vacation at, there used to be huge colonies of red and black ants. I'd sit and watch the colonies wage war against each other. One group would like raid the other group's hills for food and slaves. It was intense, but fascinating. I was kind of a morbid child.

Ants have been observed to raise aphids and milk them for food, kind of like cows. They also steal ants from neighboring colonies and use them as slaves (to build and take care of colony pupi I think?)

=O I love that mental image. Very dapper ants. Proper gents.

I feel like 90% of Australia is made up of cute animals that literally just kill you.

I love bears.

Elephants are really intense too. They hold funerals for lost loved ones and are very sensitive ,,o3o,,