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July 30, 2014
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Hang Gliding, Ant Style
Certain species of rainforest ants have developed the ability to glide back to the trunk of their home tree when recovering from a treetop fall. This keeps the ants from becoming lost and avoid predation by not ending up on the forest floor.
Credit: Steve Yanoviak and Julie Huang, University of California, Berkeley
Videos credited to the National Science Foundation, an agency of the U.S. Government, may be distributed freely. However, some materials within the videos may be copyrighted. If you would like to use portions of NSF-produced programs in another product, please contact the Video Team in the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs at the National Science Foundation.
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