Daring recent test* an ant carried a lead shot 800 tiroes its own weight. To equal this feat a man would have to move along with 50 tons on his back. Insects which live on vegetable foods e are .slow and 'inoffensive, while those <1 which feed on animal substances are very t active, pitiless, and quarrelsome, p
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11655, 20 October 1923, Page 15
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