After humans, the animals that form some of the largest and most complex societies on Earth are leaf-cutter ants. Colonies can reach sizes of more than eight million individuals, with underground nests that grow larger than thirty meters across. The lives of leaf-cutter ants revolve around a fungus that they cultivate in cavernous chambers and feed with fragments of leaf.
Merlin Sheldrake ⬩ Entangled Life
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