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Published online 7 October 1999 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news991007-11
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The life of the African ant, Crematogaster nigriceps, is a tough one. It is one of four ant species that compete to live in the same whistling thorn trees (Acacia drepanolobium) that dominate vast areas of savannah in upland east Africa.
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