And unleashes one of those feared migrations on earth. The army ants are on the move. The engine of this merciless hunger are brute of 200,000 larva and their care takers, demanding 30 thousand corpses a day.
The nursery lies at the heart of twitching shrubbing structure built almost entirely of the ants themselves. Long legs stuck together with tussle cores.
In the darkness, they pull out of the nest. Porters carrying the precious larva. They're virtually all sisters,daughters of one queen.
They will migrate about 330 feet each night, be equivalent in human terms of a marathon.
他們每晚遷移大約330英尺。相當(dāng)人類的一場馬拉松比賽。
詞語解釋:
1. Merciless a. 無情的 2. Ravage v. 使荒蕪,毀滅