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Uncle Milton - Ant Farm Original

by Brainstorm
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Manufacturer's minimum age: 6 months

Technical Details

  • Educational fun as the ants dig a myriad of tunnels in the Original Ant Farm
  • Collect your own ants or send off for ants with the coupon provided (small charge payable)
  • Connectable to other ant farms, the habitat is 23 x 15cm
  • Recommended age 6+

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Product details

  • Product Dimensions: 36.1 x 22.6 x 4.3 cm ; 409 g
  • Boxed-product Weight: 409 g
  • Delivery Destinations: Visit the Delivery Destinations Help page to see where this item can be delivered.
  • Manufacturer recommended age: 6 months and up
  • Item model number: 0015
  • ASIN: B0000632R8
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8,699 in Toys & Games (See Bestsellers in Toys & Games)

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    #36 in  Toys & Games > Science Kits > Environmental Science Kits
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Product Description

Manufacturer's Description

Ants are fascinating creatures and this habitat is the perfect way for kids to explore how they live, work and feed. Launched in 1956, the world-famous Uncle Milton Ant Farm has sold over 20 million units in the Unitied States. Fantastic educational fun for kids as they can watch the ant "engineers" dig a myriad of interconnecting chambers and tunnels. You can even connect up a series of ant farms using the clear plastic tubing which is included in the pack. The habitat is easy to set up and then we encourage children to harvest their own ants from the garden. Alternatively you can mail-order a European ant species from a laboratory using the enclosed coupon (there is a p&p charge for this service).The 23 x 15cm habitat comes in four assorted colours.



Product Description

Watch the world's tiniest engineers dig tunnels, build roads and erect bridges. See them plan and construct highways and subways, moving mountains right before your eyes! It's a fascinating peek into the secret world of ants.
  • Ant farm with four connecting ant ports.
  • Tunnelling sand.
  • Ant way travel tube.
  • Ant watchers manual.
  • Ant voucher - order form to buy your live insects by mail order and receive them through the post. 6 Years +

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    9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
    3.0 out of 5 stars Educational, but not interesting for long., 6 Sep 2008
    By Prof TBun (Birmingham UK) - See all my reviews
    Durability:3.0 out of 5 stars Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars Educational:3.0 out of 5 stars 
    Firstly, you should choose Ant World over this product. The price is the same, but Ant World gives you more for your money.

    Note that ants are not available in the winter, so this isn't a great christmas present.

    Collecting ants for a farm is easy. Leave a little jam outside a dish for a couple of hours and the ants will have homed in on it.

    I found some of the breathing holes were too large and ants started to escape. A little sellotape and a needle soon cured the problem. Ant farms are more fun when connected together with the tubes provided. All the farms on the market conveniently use the same diameter tubes.

    Ants farms are a better choice than worms, because they will tolerate some light, they work faster and have a wider range of behaviour.
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    13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
    5.0 out of 5 stars ant farm magic, 1 Jul 2007
    By John Mackenzie "african ant" (France) - See all my reviews
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    Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 
    I was given an ant farm when I was around 8 years old. That was in the 1950's!! It was THE BEST present I have ever had and it gave me so much fun watching the ants at work. I have NEVER FORGOTTEN it.
    Now I am buying one for my granddaughter. Thankfully, this old fashioned amusement has not been digitalised or made to make noise.
    Highly recommended as a gift. Also, see if you can buy a worm farm. It is along the same lines, excepting that worms move more slowly!
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    1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
    1.0 out of 5 stars How to kill ants in once easy step....., 20 Aug 2009
    By K. Saxby "teknival" (Wales) - See all my reviews
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    Durability:1.0 out of 5 stars Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars Educational:1.0 out of 5 stars 
    in one way, this set is good in that children get to appreciate ants more, and respect ants, as sometimes children have been too quick to dismiss ants, even kill them rather than understand their skills, intelligence, strength etc.
    but this is short-lived lesson, as ants don't live only short lives in these sets, and with some people trying 3 or more different sets of ants that all died, closing up holes so the ants can't follow their survival instincts and escape so they die, does fly in the face of this supposed respect.

    if the ants try and escape from the holes, it suggests that they should not be in this structure, and their survival instincts that tell them to try and escape, is a correct one, as the high death rate means their survival instincts are right to do so too.

    it is quite unatural habitat for them after all, this 'farm' does not occur naturally in theworld, which ruins the educational aspect of it somewhat, as its not a natural study of ants (as does the ants dying too).

    ants can be seen and studied in the wild to various extents,and much more can be learnt that way, as naturally different ages of ants can be seen from eggs to grown ants.
    i would say that it would take more effort, but then trying to find or buy ants over and over, get them into this set etc.
    perhaps something could be contructed outside that is like this set to allow the seeing of ants and their structures (without disrupting the nests too much), e.g. by putting some clear perspex on the outside of a wild ants nest and shelter it a bit perhaps would work to enable seeing a real ants nest at work. if ants can be tolerated in the garden, that is.....! will let you know if we do something like that....

    and of course there are tv programs and books that show the inside of the nests very close up too...
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