We were walking with my patient one morning this week as part of his physical therapy when I noticed a snake-like curved mountain of brown earth on the ground on the side of the road. The thing was ants’ art they wanted to show people how good builder they are.
There was a heavy pouring of rain the night before and stopped like about four hours past. The view deepened my admiration to the ants’ swiftness and cunningness in making that one meter long and about five inches diameter size of mound of earth. I guessed they needed a day to do but looks like they just needed a few hours to complete the task which reminded me of what unity can do - nothing is impossible as shown by these little red ants.
At first I thought it was just a common thing and once more admired the work by comparing it to a real mountain without forests in it.
I was about to step away when I noticed something peculiar at the tip of the mound that was partly lying on the edge of the road.
I got inquisitive when I saw there is a partly covered white color under the mound. Curious about what was it and to prove if my first impression was right, I used the tip of my shoe to remove some of the earth at the middle and saw a body of dead snake.
Wow, what a sight! So, that’s what ants do when they can’t carry a food home – they just make a home of it!
Well, I imagined what a beautiful home would be after consuming all the flesh of that snake leaving only the bones! It will look like one of Hollywood’s fairy tale caves made up partly of a giant snake’s bones and thought of me inside of it.
I was fascinated by the sight so I took a video and a few shots. I hope it can give us some education about ants’ technique when the food they found is too large to carry home.
I was lucky because my cellphone’s battery was very low but still was enough to capture a glimpse of other creatures’ wisdom.
