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ANT COMMUNICATION
The Quran indicates when recounting Prophet Sulayman's (a.s) life, that ants have a communication system:
Then, when they reached the Valley of Ants, an ant said: "Ants! Enter your dwellings, so that Sulayman and his troops do not crush you unwittingly."(Quran,27:18)
Scientific research into ants has revealed that these tiny animals have very organised social lives and that as a requirement of that organisation , they also have a very complex communication network.For example , National Geographic reports that:Huge and tiny, an ant carries in her head multiple sensory organs to pick up chemical and visual signals vital to colonies that may contain a million or more workers, all of which are female. The brain contains half a million nerve cells; eyes are compound ; antennae act as nose and fingertips. Projections below the mouth sense taste, hairs respond to touch.
Even if we are not aware of it, ants use a variety of methods to communicate , thanks to their very sensitive sensory organs. they use these organs at all times, from finding prey to following one another, and from building their nests to waging a war. With 500,000 nerve cells squeezed into their 2-3mm bodies,they possess a communication system that astonishes human beings.
Then, when they reached the Valley of Ants, an ant said: "Ants! Enter your dwellings, so that Sulayman and his troops do not crush you unwittingly."(Quran,27:18)
Scientific research into ants has revealed that these tiny animals have very organised social lives and that as a requirement of that organisation , they also have a very complex communication network.For example , National Geographic reports that:Huge and tiny, an ant carries in her head multiple sensory organs to pick up chemical and visual signals vital to colonies that may contain a million or more workers, all of which are female. The brain contains half a million nerve cells; eyes are compound ; antennae act as nose and fingertips. Projections below the mouth sense taste, hairs respond to touch.
Even if we are not aware of it, ants use a variety of methods to communicate , thanks to their very sensitive sensory organs. they use these organs at all times, from finding prey to following one another, and from building their nests to waging a war. With 500,000 nerve cells squeezed into their 2-3mm bodies,they possess a communication system that astonishes human beings.
The reactions in their communications have been divided into several specific categories : alarm, recruitment, grooming, exchange of oral and anal liquid, group effect, recognition, case determination. Ants which establish an ordered society by means of these reactions, live a life based on the mutual exchange of information. To bring about this exchange, they sometime exhibit more flawless communication in areas that human beings often cannot resolve through speech, such as coming together , sharing, cleaning, and defence. Ants mainly communicate on the chemical level. These chemicals, known as pheromones, are chemical compounds that are perceived by smell and secreted by internal glands.In addition, they play a most important role in organizing ant societies. When an ant secretes a pheromone, the other ants, receive it by means of smell or taste and duly respond. As we have seen, ants require a profound knowledge of chemistry to do what they do. The fact that the Quran emphasized this fact 1400 years ago, a time when there was no such knowledge about ants, is another one of its Scientific miracle.
