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Science publication: Ants have been farming - for 66 million years

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Prof. Dr. Christian Rabeling from the University of Hohenheim in search of fungus-growing ants in Brazil. (Photo: Simone Cappellari Rabeling/private)

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Leafcutter ants (Atta cephalotes) make characteristic circular incisions to extract the substrate for the mushroom garden. Here a worker from a colony at the University of Texas. (Photo: Alex Wild, used by permission)

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