You can also get a bug's eye view of the ants' underground nest at the San Diego Zoo's Children's Zoo, something you wouldn't be able to see in the wild.

Leaf cutter ants learned to farm about 50 million years ago. Their crops of choice were Fungus. These ants carve out pieces of leaves and carry them back home to feed the leafs to Lepiotaceae a ...

While we scurried behind Nando, we saw spectacular blue morpho butterflies, lumpy rodents called agouti and leaf-cutter ants that moved across the jungle floor by the thousands, a writhing red carpet.

and leaf-cutter ants) on islands with and without vertebrate predators to assess the potential for a trophic cascade. Compared to islands with predators, they found a hyper-abundance of seed ...

Leaf-cutter ants may be tiny individually, but their colonies construct underground networks that dwarf many human homes. The largest documented leaf-cutter ant nest excavated by scientists contained ...