leafcutter

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Leafcutter ants, which can dice up tough fruit with their strong jaws
切葉螞蟻，它們可以用自己強壯的下顎把堅硬的水果切成小塊。
Currie’s team investigated the mystery of where the ants were getting their extra nitrogen by raising leafcutter colonies in airtight boxes.
庫里的小組通過在密閉的盒子中飼養(yǎng)蟻群來調(diào)查它們是從何處獲取這些多余的氮元素的謎團。
Currie added that leafcutter ants are the subject of thousands of papers authored over the last century, “yet this critical aspect of their success was completely unknown.”
庫里補充道：切葉蟻上個世紀以來數(shù)千頁作品的主角。但是到目前為止它們成功的重要一面還完全未被人所知。

Leafcutter ants diligently march by in long lines, carrying greenery on their backs, creating the illusion that the leaves are walking by themselves.
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