What can ants teach us?
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This story was originally broadcast on "Sunday Morning" on July 24, 2011.
When most people think about ants – if they think about them at all – they think of pests in the pantry or on a picnic. But in Belize, the ant is the king of the jungle ... constantly on the hunt, swarming under every rock, and lurking in almost every flower.
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