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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

HOW ANTS USE THEIR OWN BODIES TO BUILD BRIDGES

An army of ants were stranded in a tree until they decided to build their own bridge by climbing on top of each other. 
 
The quick-thinking insects wanted to reach the higher branches but found they could go no further.  Instead of giving up and climbing back down, the determined ants made their own bridge to get to the other parts of the tree. 
 
The insects, which are two millimetres long and golden in colour, locked legs and worked together to slowly extend off the branch to make a ten centimetre bridge.

Read more and see pictures
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2603204/No-bridge-far-Army-ants-stranded-tree-build-bridge-climbing-other.html

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