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they are... in a way. seperate ant groups each group serves a specific purpose.

But I often wonder how they know what their supposed to do. They sometimes perform rather complex tasks for having such a stunningly short lifespan. There is no training. It's like they come out of the larva state knowing exactly what they are supposed to do.

with some it is one does somthing, the rest will follow

Yeah, but it doesn't explain more complex tasks.

give an example

Oh, never mind:

"While many types of animals can learn behaviors by imitating other animals, ants may be the only group of animals besides primates and some other mammals in which interactive teaching behavior has been observed. Knowledgeable forager ants of the species Temnothorax albipennis directly lead naive nestmates to newly discovered food sources by the excruciatingly slow (and time-costly) process of "tandem running". The follower thereby obtains knowledge that it would not have, had it not been tutored, and this is at the expense of its nestmate teacher. Both leader and follower are acutely sensitive to the progress of their partner. For example, the leader slows down when the follower lags too far behind, and speeds up when the follower gets too close, while the follower does the opposite (Franks and Richardson, 2006)." -- from Wikipedia

yes i see what your saying. most of what i know about ants i get from stairing at them. same with spiders and other bugs. i geuss i don't explain thing too well either

I like to watch movies. I also like to replay movies in my head. It is the gift of having an eidetic memory. Right now, I am replaying X-Men III: The Last Stand. (Except not right now, right now, but before I turned on my computer.)

I also like words like eidetic.

One word I've been intrigued by lately is attitude. It has a history that I find intriguing. In the 18th century, for instance, attitude was used primarily to refer to the posture and look of a statue or sculpture of a person. It changed and expanded its meanings after that, as it came to mean the posture/look/affect of a person, and then evolved into the meaning we know today of a person's mental outlook.

Girls have cooties.

I once had coffee with organic milk, and thought it tasted funny, or tasted in a way I wasn't used to anyway.

boys have cooties more

There's a girl working at the supermarket I like, I can't get my mind off her, she's a cutie.

cute is a very strange word i hear it discribe many things. Animals cloths people...

Wolverine/Hugh Jackman is cute...well, okay, he's handsome, which is kind of the grown-up version of "cute."