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Study claims ants were farming 66 million years before humans
He says many of the fungi that proliferated during that period likely feasted on decaying leaf litter, which brought them in ...
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Opportunistic predation by leaf-cutting ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on a wounded Baird’s tapir (Mammalia: Perissodactyla: Tapiridae) in Mexico
Notwithstanding their specialized herbivorous diet, leaf-cutting ants opportunistically exploit temporary resources such as insect or vertebrate carcasses. We report on the first case of attine ...
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Zooming in on Ants
Biologist and videographer Mark Moffett's footage of ants gets up close and personal with the leaf-cutter species of the insect Explore Subscribe Newsletters Content Licensing Our Partners Terms ...
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Sisterhood of Weavers
This story appears in the May 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. If aliens ever do land on Earth, don’t get all huffy if their greeting turns out to be: "Take me to your ant." That ant ...