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Why are ants super heroines?

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The ants' odyssey.

© David Vella

By: Caroline Lachowsky

1 min

Let's follow in the footsteps of superpowers… ants: Herculean strength, an incredible memory, an unparalleled sense of direction, a gift for social strategy and structuring, a formidable collective but also individual intelligence.

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Let's go for an epic at ground level, in the footsteps of ants and more particularly of foragers, the most adventurous of them, those who come out of the anthill braving all the dangers in search of food... Real heroines endowed with Herculean physical strength, an incredible memory, a sense of direction and social structuring, a gift for strategy!

These adventurous ants turn out to be weightlifters, nurse warrior swimmers and even suicide bombers... but where do their superpowers come from?

With myrmecologists (i.e., ant specialists) 

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published by Grasset.

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