A shock awaited one of the keepers at the London "Zoo" when he went to move a nest of wood ante. In shovelling up the nest, the keeper's eyes filled with tea™. Curious to know the ca-ur-s, lie ooo'< out ." oouplo of the ants and watched them closely. They immediately discharged sets of formic- acid to a. height of fully eightinches. The Little Bomb&r&e beetle adopts similar methods of defence. In this case there is an audible report, accompanied by a tiny cloud of blui:i vapours
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 80, 4 April 1923, Page 16
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86Untitled Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 80, 4 April 1923, Page 16
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