Do ants have assholes?

The book I got a couple of days ago (I wasn't in serious mood as usually as I am) so it was fun to read..

Here is some taste..!

Brad neMaTode, oKlahoMa city

Although it has been rendered useless by evolution,contrary to popular belief the humble ant does have an
asshole. It is, in fact, the smallest orifice in any known creature, so tiny that it only allows a single atom to pass
through at a time. The sound of an ant breaking wind has been recorded as the lowest decibel-level achievable in
nature (Prof. Humbert Unself created a fake ant entirely from porcelain which emitted a quieter one). The farts
are, however—although silent—quite incredibly violent and have accounted for many a fainting fit in university
biology departments down the years.

Dr. DAvID poWEll-StropES, EmErItuS profESSor, ?_
DEpArtmEnt of GAS rESEArCh, DunDEE university

Powell-Stropes??s learned answer has great implications for classicists such as myself. In the well-known Greek myth,
the architect and engineer Daedalus was presented with an apparently unsolvable puzzle by King Minos: feed a fine
piece of thread through the spiral center of a helical seashell, and win riches beyond measure. As the tale is usually told, Daedalus cleverly tied the string to the back leg of an ant, and tempted it to walk through the helix in search of a single bead of honey placed at the other end of the shell. Or at least, that
is how most scholars have got around the tricky—seemingly insurmountable—riddle presented by the original Greek:

And so cunning Daedalus
Tricked strong-armed Minos
Threading the ant's tiny asshole
Like a needle

Since ants were not known to have assholes until Powell - Stropes??s research was published in this organ, the
original version was simply ignored in favor of a much more believable solution, viz. the tying of a knot around
the fabulous ant's back leg.

prof. ClIvE lADyWEll, ?_
DEpArtmEnt of GrEEk StuDIES, mErton CollEGE, oxford

Anyway??_ do they have it or not..? still is a mystery..!

😉

markers= assholes....

Damn DXP and this childish word blocking..!

Thanks, that was interesting.