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I don't understand why they can't climb out? You would think after a few days one ant would find the ceiling and climb back up the shaft?

Yes, it happens, but that one ant then is apparently too selfish to go back again for the others.

Or too dumb to have the intelligence to know that he has to go back.

I though ants left scent trails behind and that's how they make paths to food or exits