However, we still have some important things to learn from ants. Even though ants do not communicate Shakespearean plays, they do communicate very effectively on a social level. As we continue to evolve from the hunter-gather bands of our ancestors to the megacity inhabitants of our progeny we will undoubtedly change how we communicate. Ants have a much more dispersed seat of intelligence than humans. The individual ant s brain consists more as a series of ganglia nodes than just a central brain located within the head.
Individual ants are tiny and their brains are tiny.
But they are the most successful of all social creatures. En masse army ants can scour the countryside sending all other creatures fleeing while simultaneously transporting their queen and her court. Such feats rival the best campaigns of humans. Ants must be doing something right in their communications. The clear human superiority to ants, as far as communication goes, appears to be largely quantitative.