ELI5, If you take a random ant from a colony and put it 20 meters away, will it find way “home”? Also, if you put an ant so far away from the colony, that it won’t be able to go back, will it survive on its own?

Question

ELI5, If you take a random ant from a colony and put it 20 meters away, will it find way “home”? Also, if you put an ant so far away from the colony, that it won’t be able to go back, will it survive on its own?

In: 128

Answer 1

I think I read somewhere that it’ll wander around aimlessly until it starves or dies some other way. Ants have no purpose without a colony and thus a life in solitude becomes meaningless.