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Question
Drop some sugar, jaggery, or anything sweet on the ground. Wait until the ants come there.
Now carefully, without harming the ants, block their path for a while with a pencil.
Now observe, how do the ants move?
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Solution
Ants climb up on the pencil. They still move in a line.
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