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Bugs >> Ants and Termites - Take a closer look at the complex world of creatures often considered just pests or reasons to call the exterminator.
- Acacia Tree Ants - Ants as bodyguards? These ants protect acacia trees with their lives!
- Ant and Butterfly Symbiosis - Why would ants and a butterfly caterpillar possibly need each other? Possibly for something sweet?
- Antlion's Death Trap - Not the King of the Jungle—but for ants these creatures might as well be. What lurks in the soft blanket of sand?
- Fire Ant Border Wars - A quarter million strong, nothing can stop these ants once they attack.
- Fire Ant Thievery - Dog eat dog? Er, make that ant eat ant. These ants seems to stop at nothing to ensure their colony is the biggest.
- Fire Ants Swarm - There's power in numbers, and once on the march, these ants seem to know it!
- Leaf Cutter Ants - Lumberjacks should be envious! With jaws vibrating a thousand times per second these ants in Borneo make mincemeat of leaves in a jiffy.
- Lifestyle of the Termite Queen - Journey to the center of the ... termite nest? Hard to believe this termite queen will produce almost 165 million eggs in her lifetime!
- Parasitic Mind Control - Now this is strange, even scary: ants controlled by parasites, all because they ate the slime of a snail!
- Red Fire Ants - Can you carry ten times your body weight? These ants can!
Amphibians - Take a look into the dual world of amphibians, crossing the lines between land and water, with tadpoles, frogs, toads, and more.
Birds - Masters of the air and heir to the dinosaurs, birds of all shapes and sizes find a home in environments all over earth.
Bugs - The adventures of the world of the very small get writ large in close-up footage of the lives of bugs.
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Invertebrates - Catch a glimpse of the bizarre forms life takes among our distant spineless relatives.
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