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Originally Posted by TheAngryPostman
Remember, these are exceptions, not the norm. Besides, if ants and snails had such horrible instincts they would have been wiped out a long time ago or would have ended up as a frenchmans dinner.
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Ants are some of the, perhaps the, most successful Animals on earth. A single individual is nothing, a single ant can't do much, the group make them strong. They don't need something like instinct to survive. Same successful collective strategy as bees, wasps, hornets, termites, roaches (in an early state), some crabs and naked mole rats.
A high individual amount, a good shell or stings, chemical weapon or poison, fast reaction (senses not instinct), simple bigness or a good camouflage are other great working strategies to survive.
The most animals of one kind on earth are little crabs that are one component of plankton. Instinct wouldn't help them.
I would say that the biggest animal group (insects) don't have something that could be called instinct.
09-05-2009
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