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Ants ahoy!
As the waters rise in the wet season, a colony of fire ants finds themselves flooded out of their home. But the fire ants move to a new home in the seasonally flooded forest, with everything they need to start a new colony, by forming themselves into a living raft. They drift across the surface of the water until they reach a tree trunk, Climbing up, they immediately attack a lizard and other insects who had taken shelter from the water up the same tree.
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