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A City of Twelve Million

Leafcutter ants shift 40 tons of soil to make their subterranean home.

11/01/2011 | Rating NR

Nature

A City of Twelve Million

Clip: Season 30 Episode 2 | 1m 53s

Leafcutter ants shift 40 tons of soil to make their subterranean home.

Leafcutter ants shift 40 tons of soil to make their subterranean home. This is one house for twelve million inhabitants, a city larger than London and New York.

11/01/2011 | Rating NR

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