It’s not only the leadership quality that we can learn from the ants, but their tidiness also can also be a lesson for us. Scientist have found that the black garden ants pile their waste in a dedicated corners of the nest.

"Ants are indeed tidy creatures, but we must be careful not to anthropomorphize," cautioned study leader Tomer Czaczkes, a postdoctoral research fellow at Germany's University of Regensburg.

"They are not tidy because it brings them satisfaction, but rather because there must be a selective advantage to being so."

Czackes and his co-authors conducted experiment on 21 small, lab grown colonies of black garden ants. The team randomly fed those insects with food dyed in red and blue sugar solutions for two months. At the end, a peculiar pattern was seen, where distinct patches of color started accumulating in two different nests, predominantly in the corner. Clearly, the ants defecated in their toilet areas, instead of just letting  it lie anywhere.

"If I were forced to choose, I would say that the mostly inactive ants in the nest simply do not want to leave the nest, as this would be dangerous," said Czaczkes explaining the reason behind the unusual behavior of ants.

-Smrutirekha