Army Ants (2).

The tale that army ants are able to eat animals even people are not true, neither. Indeed army ants can beat big animals with their huge populations. However, they cannot beat other animals on speed. In other words, because they are so small that their paces have to be also small. This makes their locomotion speed very limited. The distance ants can travel within an hour is about one hundred meters, which is much slower than most animals. So as long as you want to escape from them, you can easily survive. Of course, this does not mean ants cannot catch animals. Those which are held in barn cannot escape so not surprisingly, become ants' food at the end.

When they move from one place to another, they can cover an area of hundreds of meters long and tens of meters wide. You can hear the sound of their moving and eating. When they settle down at a certain place, the queen ant's reproductive system immediately develops into mature condition and can help her to produce 100 to 300 thousand eggs within a week. After the hatch of those eggs, the army departs again for next camping location. By then, the queen ant becomes slim and has strong legs so she can move together with her army to the next nest.