Some African birds follow nomadic ants to their next meal (www.sciencenews.org)

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Driver ants regularly sweep across Africa’s tropical forest floors in voracious swarms hundreds of thousands of ants strong. Some birds are known to find and follow ant swarms, and scientists have only just begun to study these interactions.

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[-] SillySpy@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

From the article, other birds then are also attracted to ant eating birds, as they know there will be a food source is there. Really interesting how much of an effect the ant eating birds have on the rest of the bird species

this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023

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