system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why is there a single ant randomly someplace completely isolated from any other ants, is this ant running recon or just lost?
gpt
It can be either or, ants will lay trails as they go out to explore and if they find something good they lay the trail thicker to get more ants to follow, but sometimes they lose the scent trail so they can also get lost.