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The Original ANT FARM™ - over 20 million sold!
Winner of the TIA's Toy of the Century award
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This is the Original Uncle Milton's Ant Farm,
recipient of the Toy Institute of America's Toy of the Century
Award. Novelty toy-maker Milton Levine came up with the
idea for the Ant Farm in 1956.
Up to now, over 20 million Ant Farms have been sold. The
farm features an escape proof design, antports for connecting
additional Ant Farms, and an extra-wide, stable base. Some
of our visitors will remember having one of these as a child
in the 1970s, in which case you will already know how fascinating
this learning toy is. There is a certificate inside the
box, which let's you send off for ants in the UK, however,
it is FAR MORE fun for your children to go out looking for
ants in the garden.
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The Original Ant Farm™
Ants are fascinating! Watch the
world's tinest engineers dig tunnels, build roads, and
erect bridges. See them plan and construct highways and
subways - moving mountains right before your eyes. It's
a fascinating peek into the secret and highly sophisticated
world of ants.
Children tend to find this product really fascinating
- from learning about ants in the manual, going out into
the garden to find the ants, feeding the ants (ants eat
many foods, including insects, which your children can
catch too!), to watching the ants dig their tunnels and
chambers. In this way, the Ant Farm provides a great learning
experience.
Amongst other things, you will learn that ants from different
nests tend to battle each other, so the ants you put in
will need to be from the same nest. The are many strategies
for collecting the ants - from tempting them out of their
ant hill with a homemade sugar-water syrup, to lifting
up stones. The latter method is effective, because it
also enables you to collect ant eggs (pupae), drones and
maybe even a queen, which results in a more interesting
ant farm.
Package includes:
- Ant Farm with 4 connecting Antports
- Tunneling sand
- Antway travel tube
- Ant Watcher's Manual
- Stock certificate to send for ants (or you can catch
your own from your garden)
Age: 6+
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Ant Farm Features:
- Award-winning classic
learning toy
- Everything
included, incluing sand - just add the ants!
- Approx.
23 X 15 cm
- Over 20
Million Sold
Ant Farm Packaging
1970s Packaging
See also:
Ant Works
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Ant Facts: If a man could run as fast for his size
as an ant can, he could run as fast as a racehorse. Ants
can lift 20 times their own body weight. An ant brain has
about 250 000 brain cells. A human brain has 10,000 million
so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size
brain as a human. The average life expectancy of an ant
is 45-60 days. Ants use their antenae not only for touch,
but also for their sense of smell. The abdomen of the ant
contains two stomachs. One stomach holds the food for itself
and second stomach is for food to be shared with other ants.
Ants have four distinct growing stages, the egg, larva,
pupa and the adult. There are over 10000 known species of
ants. Each ant colony has at least one or more queens. The
job of the queen is to lay eggs which the worker ants look
after. Worker ants are sterile, they look for food, look
after the young, and defend the nest from unwanted visitors.
Ants are clean and tidy insects. Some worker ants are given
the job of taking the rubbish from the nest and putting
it outside in a special rubbish dump! Each colony of ants
has its own smell. In this way, intruders can be recognized
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