if ants were the size of small mice would they be the dominant species on the planet\????

Answer 1

They would certainly be extremely dangerous. However, they probably have insufficient 'cunning' to become the planets dominant species.

When it comes to taking on 'mankind' things start to get really tricky.

First of all, ants do not have hands. Without hands you cannot make stone tools and weapons, the long bow and the spear.

The mankind tribe would simply dig a pit, fill it with sharp rocks and then using their ten foot long poles, would shove and heave the ant into their pit. Once down the pit, hopefully with a couple of broken legs, the tribe would then stone it to death with huge boulders.

When mankind got gunpowder, all the ants and their nets would be blown to bits.

No way is anyone going to dominate this here planet save us humans.

Answer 2

Considering that an ant can lift a pebble weighing 100 times it own body weight, ants the size of mice could and probably would wipe out the human race. Also consider this: that there are more than 20,000 species of ants and considered the Earth's most successful species!

Answer 3

If ants were the size of mice, they'd be a bit rubbish. Unfortunately, if you increase somethings dimensions by 10, its volume (and usually mass) will increase by 100 times. Sadly, to make an ant(2mm) the size of a mouse (50mm) this is a huge increase in mass that would cause the ant's legs to be unable to support its weight. Ants the size of mice therefore would need to be completely redesigned if they were to function at all.

Answer 4

If they were that size I doubt they'd be able to carry themselves very well. And they wouldn't be as fast as they are now because their metabolic rate would be much lower, so they'd be sluggish.

Besides, as another answerer had said, they wouldn't have hands like we do, specifically, opposing thumbs. And as another answerer said, they don't have the "cunning" like we do. They only respond to chemical cues; they don't actually think or plan or strategise -- at least not the way humans do.

Lastly, there are many other animals that are more intelligent and are larger, yet they do not dominate the earth. So why ants? Is it because they are machine-like, very efficient and carry out orders without question, are very organised and work in armies of thousands? And are not afraid of dying? Well, brains and tools (that we have) will beat that any day.

Answer 5

Insects cannot grow too large because they do not have a circulatory system. They rely on oxygen diffusion quickly through their free-floating blood. The larger the insect, the longer it takes for oxygen to diffuse across their body.

An ant the size of a mouse is probably possible, but it would need a different leg structure, because weight goes as length to the third power, while muscle strength goes as length to the second power. The larger a creature is, the stockier its limbs must be (relative to its body) to support its weight.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

well they would be more of a pain then they are now but it really depends what kind they are like black ants would not be a big threat but army ants hunt and kill all the insects around in huge areas but however big they got i still don,t think they would get to be the dominant species

Answer 8

I heard that an ant can carry twenty times his own bodyweight. They are pretty fast... and dilligent... So if they were more like the size of a small rhino, i would worry...

Answer 9

can`t say exactly if their present feature will exist and their size donot affect their number then surely then will be the most dominant species
but as they grew in size there will be scanty in space for them and they have to survive for food so it will make the ants to prove their dominance

Answer 10

Nope. Bacteria are dominant, always have been, always will be. The rest of us, ants, humans, birds, trees and so forth are just window dressing.