When Ants Domesticated Fungi

"While we’ve been farming for around 10,000 to 12,000 years, the ancestors of ants have been doing it for around 60 million years. So when, and how, and why did ants start … farming? ..."

From https://www.reddit.com/r/ants/comments/up4wuq/does_anyone_have_a_diagram_for_how_leaf_cutter/i8iqo3x/.
cloudballoonjokingly says...

NOT OK! Sloths should inherit the earth.

On a more serious note, this being a PBS production, the audio for me sounds like it was recorded in an solidary confinement cell, which is surprising.

BSRsaid:

And the ants shall inherit the earth. If that's ok with everyone else.

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