Ant colony impressively carry leaves across bridge

6 years ago
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Five Sisters Zoo in Scotland is home to many different animals, large and small. Upon visiting the zoo, we were amazed by all the different animals and the amazing standards of the zoo, all animals were healthy and all enclosures looked in extremely good condition. As well as the park grounds being extremely clean.
One of the things that really amazed me at the zoo was the leaf ants. I have never seen ants up close and managed to have a proper look at them before. I took this clip as I was fascinated. Watch as the ants carry across the bridge leaves, that they are obviously using to create some sort of home on the other edge of the bridge. The ants heading to the left are empty handed, this is because they have already dropped of their leaf and are heading back to get more. The ants heading to the right have their leaf and are travelling to the end destination to drop it off. I thought it was so incredible to see all the ants working together and moving so quickly especially across the rope to retrieve the leafs. The rope actually goes through an indoor section of the zoo, so the rope is effectively above your head. In one part of the zoo it shows you were the rope joins and the pile of leafs etc is for them to get, and then when you follow the rope through, in another part of the zoo is where the ants live and put all their collected leaves. It was very fascinating to watch. What wonderful tiny creatures!

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