  5 Creepy Ways Animal Societies Are Organizing  Ants Can Farm
We've already made it extensively clear that the world will not
end in fire or ice, but covered in ants.  But besides their
colonies -- which oh by the way are ridiculously extensive
underground labyrinths...  ... what's so special about these
insects?  Well, humans, with our big, fancy brains, have been
around for 250,000 years or so but it took us until very
recently (15,000 or so years ago) to "invent" the idea of
growing our own food rather than just finding berries and nuts
out in the wild. And while people like to say that art, or fire,
or "love" is man's greatest invention, the Statue of David can
suck it, because agriculture is the most important thing man has
done. Farming allowed man to stay in one place, inadvertently
giving rise to towns, cities, states -- shaping civilization as
we know it.  Somewhere along the line, we replaced crude huts
with 3D pornography and Bugles.  But if we'd been watching ants,
we'd have figured it out a lot