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Where Are the Ants Carrying All Those Leaves?

Ants use leaves to grow white tufts of nutritious fungus to feed their offspring.

06/11/2015 | Rating NR

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Deep Look

Where Are the Ants Carrying All Those Leaves?

Season 2 Episode 1 | 3m 26sVideo has Closed Captions

Ants use leaves to grow white tufts of nutritious fungus to feed their offspring.

Ants don’t eat leaves, they use them to grow white tufts of nutritious fungus to feed their offspring. Their success as farmers has made leafcutter ants into fungus tycoons, complete with their own underground cities and huge half-inch soldiers to patrol them.

06/11/2015 | Rating NR

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Deep Look

Where Are the Ants Carrying All Those Leaves?

Season 2 Episode 1 | 3m 26sVideo has Closed Captions

Ants don’t eat leaves, they use them to grow white tufts of nutritious fungus to feed their offspring. Their success as farmers has made leafcutter ants into fungus tycoons, complete with their own underground cities and huge half-inch soldiers to patrol them.

06/11/2015 | Rating NR

FromDigital Studios

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