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Structured, social and remarkably sophisticated, a bustling woodland ant community is home to engineers, farmers, nurses and warriors
AUSTRALIA HAS A REPUTATION for being full of deadly wildlife – and with good reason. The vast antipodean island is home to an impressive list of dangerous critters. Sharks, spiders and snakes get most
YOU’LL KNOW ALL ABOUT IT IF you get stung by a bullet ant (Paraponera clavata), a species named after the fact that the pain from its venom feels as if it has been inflicted by a gunshot. Some insect
WHEN YOU’RE HIKING IN THE Australian bush, your eyes home in on every distant blob. Everything looks like an echidna. Or at least that’s what you hope. Then you blink yourself back to reality, because
Jill Young, Stroud, Gloucestershire Professor Buczacki is ...
THERE WOULD BE LITTLE POINT IN having the ability to lethally poison a predator if you accidentally poisoned yourself and ended up just as dead. In the case of poison dart frogs, they dodge being pois
