When I was walking the other day I noticed an ant hill with small red ants coming out of it. I walked another 10' and noticed another ant hill with bigger black ants coming out of it. Even though they're so close, would they speak a different language, and attack one another?
Anonymous
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Very good question. Ants usually communicate by pheromones, chemical language equivalents in them. But although the chemical encoding in terms of specific composition, frequency and the pulses of its release may vary among species, it may be safely inferred that they would definitely understand some languages, particularly those relating to survival, like attack, reproduction, food etc.
Anonymous
They aren't close at all, they are different species! It's just like if you had a gorilla neighbour. Ants don't speak, they communicate with chemical signals and their Alfatec smell, and those chemical "languages" are completely different from one another. Not every animal makes a sound, obviously.
Frances
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