Complex sentence: The ant is commonly known as the meat ant because of its habit of stripping the meat off dead vertebrates, but it is also known as the gravel ant, Greenslade's meat ant, meat-eater ant, mound ant, or southern meat ant.
Split into simpler sentences: The ant is commonly known as the meat ant because of its habit of stripping the meat off dead vertebrates. Alternative names include the gravel ant, Greenslade's meat ant, meat-eater ant, mound ant, or southern meat ant.