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Ants in Action

You don’t have to travel to South America to watch leaf-cutter ants at work. Museums and zoos help people take a close-up look at these amazing insects. A large leaf-cutter ant colony lived at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Zoo Invertebrate Exhibit until it closed in 2014. At least 10,000 ants can live within a chamber roughly the size of a

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