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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5, If you take a random ant from a colony and put it 20 meters away, will it find way "home"? Also, if you put an ant so far away from the colony, that it won't be able to go back, will it survive on its own?
gpt
20 meters is possible to get back home, the ant will wander until it crosses the trail of chemicals that other ants from its colony leave behind (so they can get back home).

If you take an ant really far, it will never get back. it will try to find food and water, and he will keep looking for its home until somebody eats it.

Edit: the ant is now an "it". As many people said, worker ants are female, but gender has nothing to do with this behaviors.