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Excavating the Kingdom of the Ants

grrlscientist | January 26, 2009

tags: ants, hymenoptera, excavating ant city, nature, science, streaming video This fascinating video details how a scientist learns what an ant colony looks like in the wild -- it's astonishing how big these things can get [3:16]

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