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Mar 2022
34m 45s

The ants keeping an endangered butterfly...

The Guardian
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Imagine outsourcing childcare to a nest of ants? This may not be the best idea for humans but a certain insect is making it work. Now the Eltham copper butterfly’s amazing use of surrogate ant parents has attracted human fans who are using a song to try to save it from extinction 
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