Eli5 Why are ants so resistant to dying by falling?
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Because they’re small. It’s the same reason any small object doesn’t get damaged when you drop it. If you pick up something ant-sized, or as small as you can get (maybe a paperclip, a button, or a grain of rice), hold it high and drop it on the floor it won’t be damaged. But if you did the same with something bigger it would be damaged.
They just don’t have enough weight to do any serious damage when they hit the floor. If you the floor hard you might hurt your foot because of the weight of the rest of your body squashing your foot into the floor. An ant doesn’t have that since its entire body is much less high than your foot.
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