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Sick Ants Seek Out Medicinal Food

Aug 27, 2015 · 3 min
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Healthy ants wanted nothing to do with free-radical-rich foodstuff, but ants exposed to a pathogenic fungus sought it out, which upped their odds of survival. Christopher Intagliata reports

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