This one’s for JusticeforPorygon!
A lion sized ant would asphyxiate rather quickly. Breathing through spiracles/tracheae doesn’t scale well.
But there were giant ants during the Eocene
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanomyrma
For the sake of argument, let’s assume a hyper-rich oxygen environment.
Yeah well… “giant” ants still aren’t lion sized. Or even cat size. Perhaps “oh wow that’s a big ant” big, but not actually that… big.
The fossils indicate that the males grew up to 3 centimetres (1.2 in) and the queens grew to 7 centimetres (2.8 in). It had a wingspan of about 16 centimetres (6.3 in).[7][8]
And the lions would quickly get too cold by having way too much surface area.
Scientific accuracy is no fun for shrinking and growing things.
I’ve played “it came from the desert”. I’ll take the tiny lions any day.
Just toss a bucket of water at them or adopt them and keep them in a terrarium.
Ant size lions are too small. Can I have 50 tennis ball sized lions instead, please? (And utter chaos would ensue…)
It’s be a racket.
Fight? I’m sure you meant “keep as a pet”. And obviously the microlions. I’d feed them ground beef and try to maintain a breeding population, eventually sell them as pets.
Yeah. This is the only correct answer. I just wanted to keep with the Lion Fighting theme that popped up last night.
1k ant-sized lions, easy. just run over them while high-stepping. how is this a question?
Yeah. I didn’t really balance it, I just mashed the recent lions vs ants/bees/blobfish(?) posts with the classic AMA question from Reddit.
