Survey of Higher Agricultural Ants (IMAGE)

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Survey of Higher Agricultural Ants

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Ted Schultz surveys the gigantic mound of a higher agricultural ant colony in the seasonally dry Brazilian Cerrado (savanna) near Brasilia in 2009. Higher fungus-farming ant colonies and agricultural behaviors are comparably larger-scale and more complex than the colonies of lower fungus-farming ants.

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Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo, Smithsonian.

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