The army ant queen

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Join us on a hunt for the elusive army ant queen (Dorylus molestus) at Mount Kenya. Army ant queens are the biggest ants on the planet and highly unusual looking. First, their gasters are massively enlarged to accommodate the huge ovaries. Second, unlike the queens of most other ants, they are permanently wingless, reflecting the fact that army ant queens never leave the colony, and colonies reproduce by fission. • This video provides background footage for my upcoming book Army Ants: Nature's Ultimate Social Hunters , which will be released by Harvard University Press later this year: https://www.amazon.com/Army-Ants-Natu...

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