At the borders of those societies, they fight the most destructive within-species conflicts, in terms of individual fatalities, that the planet has ever known.
there are roughly 200,000 times more ants on our planet than the 100 billion stars in the Milky Way.
individuals from the same species or group can be expected to accept and cooperate with each other even when they have never met before.
Human efforts to control ants are regularly described as a war
As our world turns alien, trying to think like an alien will be a better route to finding the imagination and humility needed to keep up with the changes than looking for ways in which other species are like us.
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