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3 work-life lessons taught by ants

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3 work-life lessons taught by ants

Previous perceptions of ants as the busybody, never-stop worker drones of the insect world have been challenged, by new research from Missouri University of Science and Technology.

Though it is near-impossible not to enjoy the attempts of Disney-Pixar (A Bug’s Life) and Dreamworks (Antz), in animating the lives of ants, they don’t show us how cleverly they work.

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