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You can hardly expect a Fourmilab
expedition to come back without any pictures of ants!
Here is a column of black ants, each almost a centimetre in
length, extending from their colony (invisible in the
brush) to the carcass of an animal (out of the frame to the
left) they were scavenging. This photo was taken by night,
illuminated by the spotter's light. The carcass the ants
were stripping was insufficiently illuminated to
photograph and indistinguishable in any case, probably
already worked over by vultures and hyenas before the
arthropodal clean-up crew arrived on the scene.
by John Walker
July, 2001
This document is in the public domain.
