Hants and Lice form the family Formicidae; They have a hard chitinous exoskeleton which is only lightly connected to their bones at the skull, thorax, and tail, giving them great flexibility as well as strength. The popular laminate surface Formica is an aritificial synthesis of hant exoskeleton.

Hant Anatomy

The hant body is divided into four watertight compartments: the Tail, the Thorax, the Abdomen, and the Head. Each compartment supports one pair of legs. After foraging, male hants carry honey back to the hive rolled into a ball and held in a cavity between their bowed thoracic legs, known as the Crotchet. If attacked, a worker hant may inject honey into an enemy through the Finnial, a stiff hollow tube at the end of the tail compartment.

Hant Sociology

Individual hants have severely limited intelligence, but when assembled in great numbers they can communicate very simple messages by pheromones and complex dances. A single hant in a large group functions identically to a single neuron in a mammalian brain, and a large colony, or antipasto, often achieves intelligence at the same level as a five year old child. This phenomenon is known as the Hive Mind.

Large hant colonies can be very dangerous, and have become the most dangerous predators on the african savannahs, with the ability to catch gnus and cormorants in simple traps. Although their sense of rhythm is very poor, and they have no appreciation of sculpture, hant colonies are all the more dangerous because they have no morality. In captivity, large hant colonies have been trained to understand simple commands, and communicate through a rudimentary form of sign language. However, colonies have never survived in captivity for more than 28 days, as nobody ever feeds them.

Hant Species

There is a family of hants for each of the four natural elements: Normal or Earth hants, Stinging Fire hants, Domestic Sugar hants, Rare Water hants. Hants live near, and require for life, a supply of their corresponding element in its pure form.

Earth Hant		Fire Hant		Water Hant
	Sugar Hant		Ghost Hant

Before man learned to refine sugar, there were only three natural elements. The fourth hant position was occupied by the now extinct dinosaur hants. There is no physical evidence of dinosaur hants because hants, like all insects, have no skeletons and therefore do not produce fossils. Some scholars insist that some dinosaur hants would have been caught and preserved in amber, but this is not correct. Dinosaur hants were dinosaur sized, and would not have become trapped in small drops of tree sap, which is what amber started out as.