"Did you know that beetles can read ant trails and snails smell like ant pupae? These beetles and snails in the Malaysian rainforest depend on army ants for housing and food, but the army ants move frequently to new nest sites. This results in tens of thousands of ants marching together to find a new place to live. But if one looks carefully at the marching ants, one can see some surprising things! Volker Witte (LMU Munich) works on army ants in the rainforest near Kuala Lumpur. Volker and the others in his team divide their time between the rainforest (to observe the ants) and the laboratory in Munich (to do modern chemical analysis of smells and trails). They want to understand how snails, beetles and spiders (and at least 7 other species) have adapted to the ants and what counter-adaptations have evolved in the ants..."
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