"the megaponera analis will be back. with a bigger raiding party. the termites have suffered great losses. with only the queen and king and some few workers being alive."
that was just a small outpost, usually, the majority of the colony is unscathed and a few hundred termites is still a small price to pay. Matabele ants usually never try to take on an entire termite mound as the few hundred ants would eventually get overwhelmed by the up to a million termites in an average mound.
