how ants don’t just drown when it rains.

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Particularly when it rains fairly heavily. I mean their colonies are just a network of unground tunnels. One would assume they’d just fill with water.

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Most underground colonies have a system of water traps – hollowed out rooms where water can pool but not advance to the next until the pool is filled. In the traps that are filled with water, the ants can just walk around/above the water to get out

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