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Lost in Translation (a walk on a 2D surface embedded in 3-space that never returns home)

At the risk of asking an uninformed question...

Imagine an ant on a two-dimensional surface embedded in 3-space. The ant is placed at an arbitrary point on the surface with random orientation. Once placed and oriented, the ant will walk along the curvature of the surface.

Are there examples of such 2D surfaces where we are guaranteed the ant will never return to its (arbitrary) starting position?

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