Completely off-topic, but a quick google seach interestingly implies that ants hold a significant portion of animal biomas: On average, ants monopolize 15–20%

Completely off-topic, but a quick google seach interestingly implies that ants hold a significant portion of animal biomas: On average, ants monopolize 15–20% of the terrestrial animal biomass, and in tropical regions where ants are especially abundant, they monopolize 25% http://www.pnas.org/content/97/26/14028.full http://www.pnas.org/content/97/26/14028.full I didn't have as much luck finding a quick elephant biomass estimate. But giving a generous estimate of 1 million elephants, and the upper limit of the weigh of the larger African elephant at 26,000 pounds we can guess that elephant biomass is less than 26 billion pounds. Considering that's less than the biomass of humans in the US, I'd say ants probably actually do compare well to elephants in proportion of total biomass. I apologize for any pedantry, but it was actually a question that piqued my curiosity.