Hi Mike, these ants are doing "ritualised fighting" a territorial display in which the ants try to work out where the boundary between two different Meat ant colony territories is, without actually having to fight each other. There is interesting information on this at the link below. Cheers, Jon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_ant
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