all doing exactly the same thing, 都在做相同的事 that's a mind-boggling amount of grass. 它们消耗的草数量惊人 It's estimated that over one third of the grass that grows on Earth 据估计 地球上超过三分之一的草 will be harvested by an insect. 都会被这种昆虫采去 In northern A...
The rotting grass feeds the fungus, 真菌以腐烂的叶片为食 and in turn the fungus feeds the ants. 而真菌又成为蚂蚁的食物 But feeding 5,000,000 workers requires intensive agriculture. 养活五百万劳动者需要大规模的高效耕作 Luckily, they are an industrious lot. 幸好它们都很勤劳 This colony al...
and in turn the fungus feeds the ants. 而真菌又成为蚂蚁的食物 But feeding 5,000,000 workers requires intensive agriculture. 养活五百万劳动者需要大规模的高效耕作 Luckily, they are an industrious lot. 幸好它们都很勤劳 This colony alone will collect over half a ton of grass every...
But feeding 5,000,000 workers requires intensive agriculture. 养活五百万劳动者需要大规模的高效耕作 Luckily, they are an industrious lot. 幸好它们都很勤劳 This colony alone will collect over half a ton of grass every year. 仅这一个蚁群 每年就能收集五百多公斤草 With billions of ant col...
Luckily, they are an industrious lot. 幸好它们都很勤劳 This colony alone will collect over half a ton of grass every year. 仅这一个蚁群 每年就能收集五百多公斤草 With billions of ant colonies across the world's grasslands 数十亿蚁群遍布全球草原 all doing exactly the same th...
So, why bother? 那到底是为什么呢 The answer is underground, 答案在地下 and it's very ingenious. 可谓别出心裁 Each blade is cut to length and placed into a garden of fungus. 每根叶片都被切成一定长度 放入菌圃 The rotting grass feeds the fungus, 真菌以腐烂的叶片为食 and in turn the f...
The answer is underground, 答案在地下 and it's very ingenious. 可谓别出心裁 Each blade is cut to length and placed into a garden of fungus. 每根叶片都被切成一定长度 放入菌圃 The rotting grass feeds the fungus, 真菌以腐烂的叶片为食 and in turn the fungus feeds the ants. 而真菌...
and it's very ingenious. 可谓别出心裁 Each blade is cut to length and placed into a garden of fungus. 每根叶片都被切成一定长度 放入菌圃 The rotting grass feeds the fungus, 真菌以腐烂的叶片为食 and in turn the fungus feeds the ants. 而真菌又成为蚂蚁的食物 But feeding 5,000,000 wo...
Each blade is cut to length and placed into a garden of fungus. 每根叶片都被切成一定长度 放入菌圃 The rotting grass feeds the fungus, 真菌以腐烂的叶片为食 and in turn the fungus feeds the ants. 而真菌又成为蚂蚁的食物 But feeding 5,000,000 workers requires intensive agriculture...
that virtually no large grass eaters can stomach them. 几乎没有大型食草动物能消化得了 Yet they're harvested on an industrial scale... 然而却被小小的切叶蚁 ...by tiny grass cutter ants. 大规模采集 But they themselves can't digest one bit of it. 可它们根本无法消化叶片 So, wh...