The Origin of Ants

I'm always a fan of older, almost silly folktales like these, so I did enjoy The Origin of Ants. The ending was surprising and almost came out of nowhere, mostly because I forgot the story was even about where ants came from. I believe the moral is to not lie, as then you need to keep making bigger lies to cover up the first one. Each situation is more extreme than the last, until the man straight up gets turned to dust (and then ants) in the end. Later I looked up how well ants could smell, and it turns out the farthest they could smell food from was about three meters. But I guess for something as small as an ant, that's pretty impressive.