Videos: Aesthetic Expressions of Non-Human Animals
Ants! Nature's Secret Power
Bert Hoelldobler
Related animal: Ant

FASCINATING DOCUMENTARY into the world of ants. Description from wikipedia: "Bert Hoelldobler, friend of world renowned scientist Edward Wilson, is a world authority on these amazing animals. He has dedicated his life, travelling around the world, to understand these. Through his eyes and his words we will be transported into the world of the ants. A world more wonderful and bizarre than any science fiction. "Ants" will reveal this alien world for the first time, in the company of a true authority and enthusiast." This particular clip shows the excavation of a plastered nest of a colony of ants, described by the narrator as a "secret megalopolis" or "city-state."

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