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'Ants were our favourite - they tasted quite sweet'
Merijie de Groot and David Mackie tell the BBC's Emily Thomas about the food choices they made when they were lost in a barren and unforgiving part of Turkey.
(Photo: Two black ants, Credit: Anterovium, Thinkstock).
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