Ants and other Animals

Other people: It's just a normal car

okay, so, i thought i accidentally scared an ant, and for some reason i’ve been emotional asf today, so i ranted about it to a friend, who said something along the lines of “i’m sure the ant is fine now”, which spiked my “animal curiosity”, so i looked up if ants can feel fear, and turns out, they can’t! later on, i looked into it more, and DUDE THEY ARE SO AWESOME

it’s so cool cause like, yeah, ants don’t feel fear in the same way we do, BUT they show behaviour that assumes they can realise and actually respond to potential problems. they have this cool sensory system that helps them detect changes in environment, like potential predators being around or something dangerous idk anymore. and so when they’re threatened, they release these “alarm pheromones” that signal other ants in the colony to do defence actions (fleeing or attacking or something similar). similar to a fear reaction, as that it involves avoiding a perceived threat. however they still do not have the cognitive capacity to understand or show fear as humans can, responses are based on instinct and adaptations from evaluation over time

But I got a picture of it pollinating for iNaturalist and looked closer and…there aren’t any moths with that stripe pattern.