"In the animal kingdom," says Lin, "probably only humans and ants gather and store water." He says that the many "altruistic" and "self-sacrificing" behaviors of the ant have been crucial to making Formicidae one of the world's dominant animal families.
「生物中大概只有人類和螞蟻懂得取水貯存，」林宗岐說，螞蟻有許多類似的「利他」和「自我犧牲」行為，是牠們能崛起為全世界優勢物種的重要原因。