Oh, that is just deeply fascinating. Makes me think of those Portia jumping spiders that can only hold one thought in their heads at a time but can still navigate and and plan complex hunting strategies by, in effect, "streaming" their cognition. Like watching a Youtube video instead of downloading it from iTunes or wherever.

As for the ants, that notion of them having a "biological clock" that tracks with the sun is intriguing; for all the creatures of this earth including us, the constants of the world are the environmental background against which our evolution is possible. We evolved in conjunction with the cycles of the sun and the rotation of their earth, hence the presence of circadian rhythms and biological clocks in us.