As everyone knows, ants exhibit social behavior that involves a distribution of labor: Some worker ants are responsible for foraging for food while others care for the larvae; soldier ants defend the nest; the queen lays eggs; the males fertilize the eggs. Within the colony, each class fulfills its responsibilities, cooperating ceaselessly with the others. This leads to the high degree of efficiency that is the ant's survival advantage.
眾所週知，螞蟻具有分工合作的「社會行為」──有些工蟻辛勤覓食、有的專司照顧幼蟲、兵蟻一心抵禦外侮、蟻后努力生產、雄蟻專責交配，大家各司其職，合作無間，造就了螞蟻高效率的生存優勢。