Ants queens, for example, mate only once in their life and live for up to 20 years. All the individual ants in the colony are effectively clones from the geneti

Ants queens, for example, mate only once in their life and live for up to 20 years. All the individual ants in the colony are effectively clones from the genetic material of that one foundational mating act. So it makes sense to consider the ant colony to be one "organism", and yes, it's very much a long-lived, intelligent and massive organism.