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Argentine ants
(above)
, like other ants, are social insects
that live in enormous colonies. They display a type of
intelligence that scientists refer to as collective, or swarm,
intelligence. This type of intelligence allows the entire
community of ants to act as one organism, in which each
of the ants follows a few collectively understood rules.
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