Brian and Tony are imitations in protecting and caring for pangolins. They are very caring and do not send them to the reserve and leave them behind for supervision.

The two held up video cameras to track the pangolins and checked their living conditions in the reserve to make sure they could survive here.

If there are not enough ants on the grasslands in the reserve to feed them, the two will take these parts of the pangolin and send them elsewhere.

If it is difficult to find ants and termites on the grasslands in the reserve, the two of them will take the pangolin away.

Yang Shubao is full of confidence in this. There are a large number of termites and ants in the reserve. He once cooperated with the police to destroy a smuggling gang, and obtained many ants queens from it and brought the grassland. They successfully expanded their ethnic groups on the grassland.

The easiest thing to find ants is to go to the grove where the armadillo lizard is located, which has termite nests and a super termite nest that is two meters high.

The termite nest is like a earthen castle, and there may be a world hidden underground.

But the first step for the pangolins to find the termite nest, but the swordsman in the ant world.

Leaf-cutting ant.

This is a very magical ants. They will cut off the leaves of the plant and transport them back to their nests along the fixed ant path, forming a long queue. Ants like a nest consume even the same amount of fresh leaves as a cow.

Leaf-cutting ants eat leaves, grass leaves, fruit leaves, petals, etc. They also use these plants to accumulate for fermentation to cultivate fungi. They are very interesting ants.

If it weren't for pangolins leading the way, Yang Shubao wouldn't even know that there was a big family like leaf cutting ants on his territory.

He brought back too many ant queens and had too many categories, so he was not sure about the development of the ants.

Later, the number of leaf-cutting ants increased, but when they were traveling, they were wearing grass leaves and tree leaves on their heads, which well covered their whereabouts. Yang Shubao had never noticed their traces.

There are too many large animals in the reserve, and no one pays attention to the little ants.

Uncle Yang followed Brian and Tony to see the leaf cutting ants and were shocked. They had already walked out of the ant path!

This is the talented skill of an ant. Once the worker ants who go out to explore the path find a suitable plant, it will leave a path of smell and then go back to summon companions. Then, an army of ants containing worker ants of different sizes will head to the workplace.

Mr. Lu Xun once said that there is no road in the world. If ants walk too much, there will be an ant path.

Uncle Yang was shocked when he saw teams of little ants carrying many blades that were far larger than himself.

What shocked him even more was that some ants were shameless and actually stayed on the leaves and let their companions carry them on their backs.

What is this? Car riding? Free riding?

When Tony saw these ants, he was excited: "God bless, what a beautiful leaf cutting ants. I saw leaf cutting ants, a huge leaf cutting ants group!"

"They are the sacked leaf ants, right? I'm here to recognize them." Brian was also happy.

Yang Shubao said: "Okay, seeing this group of ants, your favorite pangolin can survive here, right?"

"Of course." Tony danced happily, "You definitely have a huge leaf-cutting ant group here. Absolutely, look at the big ants in the transportation team. They are soldier ants, very powerful guys. Their upper palates can cut leather, and when they gather in groups, they can even kill a mouse."

The ants he pointed out to Yang Shubao were indeed relatively large in size. The one responsible for transporting the leaves was the worker ants. Their heads were only about two millimeters wide and they were very small ants.

The head width of the soldier ants can reach 7 mm and the body length exceeds 1.7 cm. They are mixed in the team to show off their power. If there are insects that cause trouble in the team, they will rush to dismember them.

That's quite tough!

"When the number of leaf-cutting ants colonies reaches 100,000, the first batch of soldiers ants will be born. Based on the queues assigned by the soldiers ants when they launch an attack, we can know that there are several batches of soldiers ants here, and there must be millions of workers in the ant hole." Tony explained with relish.

A pangolin discovered these leaf-cutting ants, but instead of getting down, it squatted on the ant path for a while, and then began to march with the leaf-cutting ants.

When I set up a long line to catch big fish, this pangolin is looking for the old nest of leaf-cutting ants.

Leaf-cutting ants are not fools. If pangolins eat here, they will scatter and hide in the weeds.

In this way, pangolins can't eat many ants at all, and they will only waste their energy. So when they find the ants, they will not rush to get down, but follow the ant colony to find the ant hole and then hit the Huanglong.

The ants are bustling on the road, and the little workers are carrying large leaves and moving very slowly.

But this is because they are too small. In fact, they are amazing and powerful. If they are enlarged to the size of a dog, then these workers can run 15 kilometers in one go at a speed of 26 kilometers per hour, and during this period they are equivalent to carrying more than 300 kilograms of weight...

This is a feat that no mammal can do!

Termite nests protrude on the ground, like a earth castle, and the nests of leaf-cutting ants are much more hidden, they are hidden underground.

This does not mean that termite nests are larger than leaf-cutting ants. Leaf-cutting ants are large and smart. They are really smart and can use fermented plants to feed fungal mushrooms. Only humans in the entire nature can do this.

Leaf-cutting ants have evolved to the point of farming, and they can also engage in construction, which is different from termite nests that are just magnificent and complex. Leaf-cutting ants nests have accurate functional partitions.

For example, there are multiple farms in their nests for fungi to grow. After the leaves are transported back, they will be sent to the farm, where the leaves will be cut into smaller pieces by smaller ants until they are chewed into bacterial beds.

For example, some areas in their nests are garbage dumps, and the leaves and veins that cannot be eaten will be bitten and sent to these places, allowing them to rot and decompose here.

The pangolin chased the worker ant and arrived at the leaf cutting ant nest. It stretched out its small claws that had been in its arms and prepared to dig a hole to eat.

Tony and Brian both felt a little regretful. There was no doubt that there was a high-level leaf-cutting ant nest here. This thing is an underground city. The deepest nest can reach about ten meters, and the widest part covers an area of ​​dozens of square meters, including large and small nests, where millions of ants live, and a large number of fungi are also cultivated.

Yang Shubao also sighed: "For the species of ants, this is a civilized city."

Tony said: "It's not very civilized, it can only be called ancient civilization."

"For example, Pompeii?"

"Yes, Pompeii."

"Okay, the world-destroying man appeared again, unlucky Pompeii." Brian lifted a piece of grass, and the pangolin rubbed his little front paw and started moving.
Chapter completed!