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Ants team up to stay dry

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Fire ant colonies form water-repellent rafts to escape floods.

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  1. Mlot, N. J., Tovey, C. A. & Hu, D. L. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA doi:10.1073/pnas.1016658108 (2011).

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Buchen, L. Ants team up to stay dry. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.257

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