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Ant Death Circles Explained. Lord of the Ants. Tiny diver ants Vs red ants - Ant Attack - BBC wildlife. Ants create a lifeboat in the Amazon jungle - BBC wildlife. Unbelieveable!! Whole gecko rapidly eaten by ants! Ants! Ants: The Invisible Majority with Dr. Brian Fisher. Bio Brian L. Fisher Brian L. Fisher, Chairman of Entomology at the California Academy of Sciences, is an ant systematist who specializes in the large-scale discovery, description and naming of African and Malagasy ants. In the past few years, he has discovered over 800 new species of ants in Madagascar alone, including the Madagascar Dracula Ant – a find that is helping scientists to understand the evolution of ants from wasps. Fisher also maps diversity patterns and uses them to instruct land management and conservation decisions. His inventory work in Africa and Madagascar demonstrates the feasibility and challenges of conducting global biodiversity inventories.

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