SERVICE ORDER. Blocks on ant trails are cleaned by "police" and "soldiers". A couple of minutes after the fall of the branch, which blocks the road to the "loaders" and "workers," "policemen" come to the place of the blockage - large ants with especially strong paws. They rake away the old leaves, organizing a new route. A heel of "policemen" are also at the crossroads, regulating the flows of "laborers".
If three unequal parts of food are placed near the trail, a scout will examine them in a minute, and two more (at almost any distance from the anthill!) Will receive "special units" for food. Conditionally: to a small piece - 25 "policemen", to the middle - 48, and to a large - 137, but not "police", and "soldiers" - smaller ants, but more friendly and poshustre. And in any case, their number will strictly correspond to the weight of the finds. It is extremely rare, but it happens that two or more ants can not share something with each other. You will laugh, but the fact remains - to separate their confrontation there and then the "policemen" hurry.
ARMY. Wars with other ant kingdoms are led by "soldiers" under the auspices of "generals" - the individuals are slightly more massive. It is interesting that warriors never go to the enemy with an ugly crowd. It is always a certain order. And, it seems, it depends on the strength of the enemy, on the terrain and on where the sunlight is at that moment.
In other words, people only vaguely guess about the way in which their armies are built by their generals. But what scientists still can not understand at all, is how ants transmit information to each other. About what scouts learn, most of the ants become aware in 2-3 minutes, even if the distance is about 3-5 kilometers!
By the way, during wars the consciousness and the queen is manifested - in the time of trials she gives birth only to soldier soldiers, men.
SANITARY. All ant specialties can not be listed. There are among them "doctors", "orderlies", "undertakers". But their contacts with fellow tribesmen are simpler and focused on specific smells. Scientists somehow doused the guinea pig with the smell of death. "Doctor", sniffed at him and ascertained death, although he with might and main waved his antennae and jerked his paws. The declared "orderlies", despite the fierce resistance of the "deceased", piled it on themselves and carried it to the anthill, where the ritual was completed by the "undertakers", the explosion of the unfortunate person in full accordance with the anecdote: the doctor said to the morgue, hence - to the morgue.
