'''Ants'''<ref>[https://www.nintendo.co.jp/character/mario/archives/land2/index.html?lang=en Mario Portal]</ref><ref>''[[Super Game Boy Player's Guide]]''. Page 23.</ref> are enemies based on real-world ants which appear in ''[[Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins]]''. They first appear in the [[Tree Zone]] level [[The Exit]], and are later encountered in two [[Macro Zone]] levels, [[The Ant Monsters]] and [[In the Syrup Sea]]. Ants continuously walk from side-to-side, and can damage [[Mario]] by marching into him. Mario can quickly defeat an Ant by either [[jump]]ing on it or, as [[Fire Mario]], shooting a [[fireball]] at it.
Ants and their three variants — [[Chikunto]], [[Goronto]], and [[Dokanto]] — are largely featured in The Ant Monsters, which takes place in an ant nest.
