i realized that they were fighting! but why were they fighting? they looked to be the same species and i found it so strange that i just had to do some research and thought i’d share with you.
it turns out that this happens sometimes in nature. one reason could be that a colony is expanding into an area where another colony already lives or a colony is traveling and runs into another colony. each and every colony has a different scent. even two different colonies of the same species will have different scents. their scents are always changing together as one. so, if you were to take a few ants 