No, it totally makes sense. It's like a giant beehive. They're the workers and that's their queen. It controls them.
9 seconds sound clip from the How to Train Your Dragon movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:58:42 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- Uh... what does that make us?
- What my dad wouldn't give to find this.
- It's satisfying to know all our food has been dumped down a hole.
- They're not eating any of it.
- All right, bud, we got to get out of here... now!
- We have to think this through carefully.
[...]