Different animals have different foods that they like. Do you think animals are born liking foods or do they learn to like them? Or is it a little of both? Find out what kind of foods ants like to eat.
Find a group of ants - maybe an ant hill or just a several ants you see outside.
Gather a small piece of different kinds of food: Maybe something sweet, like a grape, something starchy like a potato or piece of bread, something with a lot of protein like a piece of meat, egg or tofu, and something fatty like a piece of avocado
Put each piece of food on a small piece of paper towel an equal distance from the ants
Watch to see which food the ants go to the most. It can take the ant awhile to find the food so visit to check on the food at different times throughout the day to see which food they are eating the most
Do you think the ants were born liking the food they ate the most? Why or why not?
What other insect behavior experiments would you like to try?
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