The million ants’ migration
It was supposed to be a match made in heaven. Until international politics came to the fore.
Jhim Jhim, 23, of the Cattle Lover State fell in love with cow trader Abdul Quader, 28, while the latter was bringing in cattle from his No Cattle Trading State.
While grazing his cows in no-man's land, the area where only women are allowed, he was stopped by Jhim Jhim. She reprimanded him for breaking age-old rules and asked him to leave the area immediately.
Abdul Quader, the man from the country where "no" can mean a hundred different things apparently, fell in love right then and there.
What followed was a whirlwind of wooing and persuading. Much like movies which say stalking leads to love, Abdul Quader finally won Jhim Jhim over by giving her six cows. His father maintains that those were not given as dowry.
Fast forward four years -- since that is how long it takes to plan a wedding in the country -- and Jhim Jhim and Abdul Quader tied the knot. And that is the day when the trouble began.
Jhim Jhim had brought one hundred packets of sweets from her country, which she said was a better sweetmeat maker. Unfortunately, with the sweets came the ants. When the remaining sweets were taken back to Jhim Jhim's home country, an ant migration took place, this time from the Cattle Lover State to the No Cattle Trading State.
And the Cattle Lover State ants never returned. Worse, as Cattle Lover State ants are known to do, they also began to breed in large numbers.
"We fear soon we will lose our own ants to these ants," No Cattle Trading State Foreign Minister Nimbar Sheddy said. "We should never have opened our borders in this way. Now they are all leaving their own country for ours."
At first experts were perplexed as to why this mass migration was taking place. But a female scientist may have discovered the reason.
"Ants may have a death wish. I noticed this when an ant swam into my soda drink for no apparent reason and drowned," Nasa scientist Lubnan said.
"Ants also generally go where there will be less people soon. Given that the No Cattle Trading State is about to throw out millions of people, or lock them up in brand new 'learning centres', the ants probably believe they will have plenty of space to start brand new colonies," she said.
Another expert opined that the migration may have something to do with the ant's love for the "hive mind".
"Indeed, there is also hive mind in this state, but the hive mind there appears to be greater. Their collective outrage over everything is also greater. Plus, think about it, there are like a billion people in their hive mind. They are the biggest democracy in the world. So many opinions! Of course the ants are attracted," KK Shokan, the lead scientist at Sciencing University and Research Centre, said.
"There are ants coming from there too. Maybe they are pushing them in here. I don't know and frankly I don't care. They are our big brother. Friends of our fathers. We love them," Cattle Lover State Foreign Minister Dr NoMen said.
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