A couple weeks ago my wife took me to Biosphere 2. We had a picnic meal in the parking lot, just enjoying the breeze from the tailgate. Crumbs get dropped from sandwiches, as they often do. The ants found them quickly, and started dragging these comparatively HUGE bits of bread back home. It's like my wife and I moving our van sideways, pulling it where we want it.
#ants are pretty amazing.
One ant was trying to pull a crumb way too big for it. It would progress a quarter inch, drop the crumb, and walk in a circle, grab the crumb and try again. I watched it do this a few times, imagining it pushing through the Sisyphean task, psyching itself up in a little walk around and trying again. After it dropped the crust, I reached down and pressed on the bread - fairly dry by now - and it broke into smaller pieces. The ant walked around the pieces, picked up the largest one and lifted it overhead, now able to walk home, with bread larger than itself for the colony.