Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1898 — Ant Knowledge. [ARTICLE]

Ant Knowledge.

The president of the Agassiz Association, H. H. Ballard, recently caught an ant near its hill, shut it up in a box, carried it 150 feet away and set it free in the middle of a sandy road. What followed he thus describes: “It seemed at first bewildered. Then it climbed to the top of a ridge of sand, erected Its body as high as possible, waved its antennae for several seconds, and then started in a straight line for home.”