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Bernard Suits, a philosopher who focused on sports, disagreed, and he drew on Aesop’s fable of the ant and the grasshopper in his inventive rebuttal.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

I was sitting on a fire ant hill.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

"Royal Mail is a huge company and I'm just a small ant to them so I just take the easy option and go and pick up the mail myself."

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

The team examined relationships between cuticle volume, colony size, and evolutionary diversification across more than 500 ant species.

From Science Daily • Mar. 10, 2026

Third, a live grouse with its legs tied together; fourth, the soft, tanned pelt of an ant bear.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver