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Bestiary

Meet every ant
on the tongue.

Nine kinds. Each with its own behaviour, ecological role and stat profile. Learn the bestiary, plan your slurps, and find out which ants are worth chasing — and which are best left alone.

Normal Ant

The everyday worker

+10
pts
Speed80
Intelligence20%
Weight1.0
Resistance8
Agility50%
Stamina6

Behaviour

Marches in lanes, occasionally wandering. Mildly skittish — pauses often, easy to grab in clusters.

Ecological role

Backbone of the colony. Forages, hauls crumbs, builds tunnels. Without these, nothing else exists.

Termite Worker

Mound swarmer — easy 5pts

+5
pts
Speed130
Intelligence10%
Weight0.5
Resistance6
Agility30%
Stamina2

Behaviour

Erupts from termite-mound holes in pulses of 4–6. Tiny, pale, fragile — any tongue tip grabs them. Rake 3+ in one slurp for a Termite Swarm bonus.

Ecological role

Soft-bodied workers from inside the mound. Each one is barely a snack, but a single eruption is a feast — if you read the rumble in time.

Leafcutter Ant

Marches a leaf home

+40
pts
Speed50
Intelligence0%
Weight1.6
Resistance10
Agility10%
Stamina20

Behaviour

Slow, focused, near-straight line. Barely reacts to the tongue — committed to the trail.

Ecological role

Carries leaf fragments to underground fungus gardens. The leaf is fertiliser, not food. Massive stamina payload.

Nutritious

Scout Ant

Fastest in the colony

+15
pts
Speed170
Intelligence90%
Weight0.6
Resistance10
Agility120%
Stamina5

Behaviour

Top speed, huge awareness radius, panics on sight. Spots crosshair stares earlier than anyone else.

Ecological role

Scouts trail-blaze new food routes and chatter alarm pheromones that swing the whole colony into flee mode.

SmartSkittish

Chunky Ant

Heavy. Stubborn. Worth it

+30
pts
Speed55
Intelligence5%
Weight2.5
Resistance22
Agility15%
Stamina9

Behaviour

Slow and barely flinches. High resistance — demands a near-perfect contact quality to capture.

Ecological role

Major workers carry oversized loads. In the wild, their bulk lets the colony move outsized prey.

Heavy

Golden Ant

Rare, fast, lucrative

+50
pts
Speed140
Intelligence75%
Weight0.8
Resistance18
Agility100%
Stamina12

Behaviour

Sprints across the arena, juke-prone and crosshair-aware. Bolts the second your aim lingers — strike fast.

Ecological role

A flash of opportunity. In nature, gilded foragers move quickly between rich patches before rivals notice.

SmartSkittish

Scholar Ant

Rare. Shouts a word.

+35
pts
Speed75
Intelligence30%
Weight1.0
Resistance10
Agility40%
Stamina8

Behaviour

Wanders calmly with a teal aura. Catch one and it shouts a vocabulary word — from easy nature terms to deep myrmecology. Worth 35 points.

Ecological role

The colony's accidental librarian. Carries syllables the way leafcutters carry leaves, and unloads them the moment you slurp it up.

Fire Ant

Spicy. Do not slurp

+20
pts
Speed100
Intelligence10%
Weight1.2
Resistance12
Agility5%
Stamina0

Behaviour

Aggressive — actively STEERS toward your tongue. Catching one burns your tongue and slows the next strike.

Ecological role

Real fire ants defend with venom. In the game, they punish greedy slurps and force you to aim around them.

Aggressive

Red Raider

Raider — ignores the tongue

+15
pts
Speed120
Intelligence0%
Weight1.0
Resistance14
Agility0%
Stamina0

Behaviour

Marches straight at the aardvark. Bites on contact. Slurp before it lands or eat a stamina hit.

Ecological role

Army-ant style raiders. In nature, columns of red raiders sweep terrain and overwhelm prey.

Soldier Ant

Mandibles. Charge on sight

+25
pts
Speed70
Intelligence15%
Weight2.0
Resistance24
Agility0%
Stamina0

Behaviour

Patrols then locks on. Once charging, commits to a line toward the mouth. Very hard to grab clean.

Ecological role

Caste-specialised defenders. Oversized heads and jaws built for one job: protect the nest.

AggressiveHeavy

Queen Ant

Boss. The crowned threat

+200
pts
Speed60
Intelligence100%
Weight5.0
Resistance42
Agility55%
Stamina38

Behaviour

Sees far, juke-master, summons reinforcements on a telegraph. 3 HP — survives multiple slurps until weakened.

Ecological role

The colony's reproductive engine. Every worker, soldier and scout descends from her.

SmartHeavyNutritiousBoss

Stat glossary

Speed
Base movement speed. Higher = faster across the arena.
Intelligence
Awareness of your crosshair. Smarter ants juke earlier.
Weight
Drag on tongue retraction. Heavier ants slow the slurp.
Resistance
Contact quality your tongue must hit to capture. High = precise lick required.
Agility
Skittishness — likelihood of panic + speed bursts when you're near.
Stamina
Stamina refunded on capture. Nutritious ants extend your run.