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title: "Do ants sleep?"  
description: "A short explanation of the ants and do they even sleep?"  
author: "Anjita D."  
published: 2023-09-29  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/2722/do-ants-sleep  
category: "animals"  
tags: ["Ants", "facts", "general knowledge"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Do ants sleep?

![Do ants sleep](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/bed6d443-ef4b-4083-a890-07fbca110dc5/images/316a6acb-8244-49ac-a99d-bb99327f3d7c.jpeg) ![Do ants sleep](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/bed6d443-ef4b-4083-a890-07fbca110dc5/images/d7ac83ef-90ac-44e7-a4df-e09927e804df.jpeg) Yes, ants sleep. Their sleeping habits, however, differ greatly from ours. ![Do ants sleep](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/bed6d443-ef4b-4083-a890-07fbca110dc5/images/316a6acb-8244-49ac-a99d-bb99327f3d7c.jpeg) Throughout the day, worker ants take hundreds of brief naps, each lasting only a few minutes. ![Do ants sleep](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/bed6d443-ef4b-4083-a890-07fbca110dc5/images/7f6d7db5-0fee-4106-acf7-00e72ebbbf4c.jpeg) Queen ants, on the other hand, prefer to sleep longer and deeper. ![Do ants sleep](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/bed6d443-ef4b-4083-a890-07fbca110dc5/images/d20a9cc0-4689-4f8c-afdc-205ff14f8034.jpeg) Worker ants can sleep for up to 4 hours and 48 minutes per day, but this is spread out over hundreds of brief naps, according to research. ![Do ants sleep](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/bed6d443-ef4b-4083-a890-07fbca110dc5/images/41d0ec29-f355-4a52-a7de-f4375946b69a.jpeg) Whereas, queen ants may sleep for up to 9 hours per day

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