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.
他们每晚迁移大约330英尺。相当人类的一场马拉松比赛。
词语解释:
1. Merciless a. 无情的 2. Ravage v. 使荒芜,毁灭