Funny thing is that ants are little more than biological robots, essentially. All their incredible coordination is due to a complex system of signals, chemicals and hormones, which ants are basically programed to respond to robotically. It’s why when a disruption occurs, you can have weird situations like a whole group of ants running in a circle until they starve to death.
There’s a lot of dead ants on the ground in front of the termites. The ants probably released a chemical on death, and it’s abundance is warning off all the other ants from attacking.
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