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I watched a fascinating Doco on PayTV about 3 weeks ago that discussed this exact topic.
Through research and much study of ant breeds all over the world they have discovered that Ants are like programmed robots. Each one has a job to do in life and that is all.
They are not effected emotionally by the death of a fellow ant. All they care about is there own task in life to the exclusion of everything else.
Yet they work like a finely tuned and designed clock. Each part working together to achieve the same goal: to serve the queen, even though they don't know why.
I wish I could remember the name of the Doco as it was very enlightning.
And the quality of the footage was amazing.
So, to answer Leon's question, it appears not. They just don't care about others. Just their Queen and their own mission to do their job for her.
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