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The wildest places on
our planet have always been
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home to powerful leaders.
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But now a new hero is rising.
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♪ Guess who is the mother ♪
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Fierce...
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Smart...
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Resilient...
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And...
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female.
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♪ Where's she from ♪
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♪ Where does she go? ♪
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We don't call her
Mother Nature for nothing.
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♪ Do you know,
can you know so ♪
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♪ Where's she from ♪
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♪ Where does she go? ♪
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All hail...
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the Queens.
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In the jungles of
Central America...
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The most impressive
female leaders...
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are also the smallest.
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Among the trillions of insects
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that live in this
secret world...
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Two tiny queens will
stop at nothing...
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to build their empires.
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One through great sacrifice...
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the other, betrayal.
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This is Glossa, an
orchid bee queen.
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A solitary female...
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who has left her
mother's nest...
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to start a family of her own.
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Her metallic armor...
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may be beautiful.
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But it hides
Glossa's darker side.
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♪ Pretty little thing ♪ t
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♪ Damn she got attitude ♪♪
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The first thing
any new ruler needs...
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Is someone to rule over...
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and this bee is
well on her way.
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Inside a hollow trunk she's
built a cell from tree resin,
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ready to cradle her first egg.
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Having mated once,
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orchid bees can lay eggs for
the rest of their lives...
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And choose if they're
male or female.
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Right now, Glossa
wants a daughter.
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Before she can lay the egg,
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she needs to gather
the food to feed it...
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And that means spending
the next week collecting
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nectar and pollen.
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Glossa's body may be pretty,
but it's also powerful.
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Her flight muscles contract more
than 200 times a second...
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Shaking pollen onto tiny
hairs that cover her body.
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An impressive tongue pumps
out regurgitated nectar...
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which she mixes
with the pollen.
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Glossa's making a
high energy paste...
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baby food for bees.
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All this work is
rather beneath a queen...
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but soon it will
all be worth it.
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It's not the joy of motherhood
that motivates her...
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it's something more sinister.
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The daughter she's carrying...
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she'll be a servant.
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And this queen will
never have to work again.
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Glossa isn't the only one
with plans for an empire.
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As night falls,
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another flying insect
begins her bid for power.
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Atta One...
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a leafcutter ant.
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Like the bee queen
she's also mated...
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and is ready to lay eggs.
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For the males, the mating flight
is their only purpose.
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And the effort is so great,
it kills them.
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Drawing in scavengers.
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Atta One will only be safe
when she has dug herself
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a nest beneath the ground.
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But as she digs deeper,
her wings get in the way.
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Atta One can't let
them hold her back...
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So, she rips each
wing from her body.
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A small price to pay
to become a queen.
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And she won't need
them where she's going.
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Atta One closes the
tunnel behind her...
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sealing herself inside...
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forever.
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While the lone
ant queen is buried
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beneath the rainforest floor,
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high above, Glossa's
hard work is nearly over.
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She brings the pollen and
nectar back to her nest
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on her hind legs...
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and scrapes them
into the cell.
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Finally, she can lay the egg
that will become her daughter.
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Now, it's a waiting game.
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It takes two months for
the egg to develop.
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And while
patience is a virtue...
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being virtuous
doesn't come naturally
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to a queen orchid bee.
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Glossa can't tell if her
daughter is thriving...
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but inside the cell, we
can see what Glossa can't.
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The larva gorges on
the pollen and nectar.
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After a month, antennae,
mouthparts and wings appear.
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Then, the body's outer
layer hardens into armor.
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Finally...
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she begins to take on the
metallic color that makes her
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recognizably an orchid bee.
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Glossa can hardly wait.
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She'll have many
young in her lifetime...
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who will leave her
when they hatch.
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But her firstborn
daughter is special.
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She will never leave.
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Glossa won't allow it.
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But not all insect
queens are so ruthless.
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Beneath the earth, Atta One
sacrifices her own body
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to create her first
brood of daughters.
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Sealed underground
with nothing to eat,
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she's had to digest
her wing muscles
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and part of her
brain to make them.
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These first
all-female workers are tiny...
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But now they're here, they can
start to provide real food...
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by farming.
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This is their crop...
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living fungus.
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The queen brought a tiny
fragment of it with her.
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The new workers have fed
it waste from the nest...
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and now they can start to
harvest its tips for food.
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But for the fungus to
keep on growing,
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it will need a better
source of fuel.
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Tiny workers are no
longer enough....
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the colony needs
specialist foragers.
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These new sisters far
outsize their nestmates...
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And develop razor
sharp mandibles,
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naturally hardened with metal.
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Perfect for cutting leaves.
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They head out...
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to work.
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In just eight weeks the queen
has a workforce able to
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take on all the tasks of
running the nest.
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All... except one.
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Atta One is still the only
ant that can be a mother,
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and the other ants depend on her
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to continue their line.
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Her final sacrifice...
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is to be buried
inside the fungus.
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Where she'll pump out eggs...
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until the day she dies.
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The colony now works
as a collective...
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and it's up to each and every
worker to make it a success.
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This is Atta number 359.
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Although she is an individual,
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Atta 359 is not unique
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or special in any way.
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You could say, she's a nobody,
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but that's exactly why
her mother made her.
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Atta 359 is a forager,
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born to serve the colony
by harvesting leaves.
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She heads out of her mother's
nest for the very first time.
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The jungles of Central America
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are a dangerous place
for a tiny ant.
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But Atta 359 follows the
scent trail of the hundreds of
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sisters that have
gone ahead of her.
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As long as she
sticks to their path...
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she's safe.
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But with so many
new distractions,
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it's easy for an
inexperienced ant...
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To wander off the trail.
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She searches for her sisters.
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But Atta is on her own.
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And she's walking into a trap.
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This is the deadly pit of
an insect larva called
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an ant lion.
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If it gets a good
grip on her abdomen,
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it will suck the
fluid from her body...
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And with it... her life.
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To the ant colony, the
death of a single forager
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is inconsequential.
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But, despite being a nobody,
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Atta has the urge to live.
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And she will...
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at least for a little longer.
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While the ant queen's
daughters are already out
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in the world...
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Glossa is waiting
for hers to hatch.
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Finally...
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its time.
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Her name is Dila.
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Although she's newborn,
Dila is no baby.
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She emerges fully mature.
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Physically indistinguishable
from her mother...
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And crucially...
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Fertile.
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Glossa intends to
take full advantage.
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She can use her daughter
to grow her family.
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So, Dila's first
task is to mate.
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Finding a male
is no problem.
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There's plenty of bee
boys buzzing about.
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Most of them?
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They just don't have
what she's looking for.
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Now this guy
could be interesting.
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Dila allows herself
to be led away.
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To watch a private dance.
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But it's not his moves
that do it for Dila...
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it's his smell.
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He's spent the last few
weeks gathering and blending
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different scents from
all over the forest.
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He's stored them in pumped up
perfume pouches on his legs.
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Until the time comes to
try them on a female.
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Now Dila is here,
it's finally his chance.
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With legs covered in
his signature scent...
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he thrusts and hovers,
propelling it behind him
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in a fine mist.
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Dila has no nose...
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but she detects the waves of
fragrance with her antennae...
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And she likes what she smells!
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Dila mates only
once in her life...
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The briefest of contact...
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and it's job done.
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Atta 359 is busy
serving her mother...
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And the colony.
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Following her sisters to
bring home the finest leaves.
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Leafcutter ants will travel
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more than 600 feet
from the nest...
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And climb the
height of 13 stories...
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To find the most
tender leaf tips.
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For Atta 359, just
half an inch long,
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it's a feat of incredible
strength and stamina.
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Leafcutter jaws
are so powerful,
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their muscles make up half
the weight of their heads.
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The ants won't
strip a tree bare...
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instead, they harvest a
little from each one.
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Allowing it to
regenerate between cutting.
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This is sustainable forestry.
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They may have brains
the size of pinheads,
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but Atta and her sisters
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could teach us a thing
or two about conservation.
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High in the canopy,
the ants are exposed.
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They can't hear the thunder,
but can sense the change in
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atmospheric pressure.
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It's time to head home.
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Atta 359 cuts a leaf fragment
just the right size for her
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to carry on her own.
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But as she heaves it onto the
carrying spikes on her back,
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a passenger climbs
onto the leaf.
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It's a slightly bigger payload
than she planned for...
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But Atta would never
refuse a smaller sister
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in need of a ride.
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She and her hitchhiker
face a race against time
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to get back to the nest.
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Atta 359 isn't the
biggest or strongest worker...
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And with her
passenger on board,
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she's not the fastest either...
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And is overtaken
by quicker sisters.
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But she is very determined.
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She doesn't need to
beat her sisters...
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She just needs to
beat the weather.
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Atta 359 and her
passenger are home and dry.
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But outside, hundreds of
ants are still in trouble.
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Rain washes away the scent
trails they need to find home,
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leaving them stranded.
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Wet leaves become
too heavy to carry...
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And a direct hit...
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Could be deadly.
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00:30:32,205 --> 00:30:36,626
While rain puts the ant
colony's work on hold...
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00:30:38,044 --> 00:30:42,006
for the queen bee,
the timing is perfect.
261
00:30:48,972 --> 00:30:52,475
The rains bring the
jungle into bloom.
262
00:30:59,649 --> 00:31:04,654
Now Dila can raid the flowers
to feed her first brood.
263
00:31:14,831 --> 00:31:18,877
She has built cells alongside
those of her mother's...
264
00:31:21,129 --> 00:31:24,799
filling them with
nectar and pollen.
265
00:31:30,930 --> 00:31:35,059
While Glossa watches...
266
00:31:35,435 --> 00:31:40,189
Dila lays her first egg,
267
00:31:40,273 --> 00:31:42,775
and seals the chamber.
268
00:31:47,906 --> 00:31:53,703
Instinct tells Dila this is a
safe place for her own brood...
269
00:31:56,497 --> 00:31:59,667
But she's wrong.
270
00:31:59,751 --> 00:32:01,836
The queen waits patiently
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00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:06,174
for her daughter to leave
the cell unattended.
272
00:32:13,806 --> 00:32:18,978
♪ Something wicked
this way comes ♪
273
00:32:23,691 --> 00:32:29,405
♪ Something wicked
this way comes ♪♪
274
00:32:30,073 --> 00:32:32,867
Using her
razor-sharp mandibles...
275
00:32:32,951 --> 00:32:38,915
♪ What's done cannot be ♪♪
276
00:32:42,460 --> 00:32:46,506
Gloss unseals it...
277
00:32:48,091 --> 00:32:51,970
Exposing Dila's
newly laid egg.
278
00:32:53,596 --> 00:32:56,349
Then...
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00:32:56,432 --> 00:32:57,517
she eats it.
280
00:32:57,809 --> 00:33:02,522
♪ Something wicked
this way com ♪
281
00:33:06,901 --> 00:33:12,323
♪ Something wicked
this way comes ♪ ♪
282
00:33:13,199 --> 00:33:15,743
Glossa replaces
her daughter's egg
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00:33:15,827 --> 00:33:16,911
with one of her own.
284
00:33:16,995 --> 00:33:22,500
♪ What's done cannot be ♪
285
00:33:25,378 --> 00:33:29,966
♪ Undone ♪
286
00:33:33,428 --> 00:33:36,889
♪ Undone ♪ ♪
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00:33:36,973 --> 00:33:39,642
The queen can
sit back and let Dila
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00:33:39,726 --> 00:33:43,688
tend to this egg...
289
00:33:43,771 --> 00:33:46,024
and dozens after...
290
00:33:46,107 --> 00:33:49,527
as her own.
291
00:33:53,656 --> 00:33:58,536
Glossa will let her daughter
do all the dirty work.
292
00:34:10,173 --> 00:34:12,967
More than two years
since she founded it,
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00:34:13,051 --> 00:34:18,306
the leafcutter queen's nest has
grown beyond all recognition.
294
00:34:29,067 --> 00:34:31,986
Hundreds of
thousands of ants...
295
00:34:32,070 --> 00:34:36,115
Tend great walls of fungus...
296
00:34:40,995 --> 00:34:45,249
Feeding it a
constant supply of leaves.
297
00:34:53,633 --> 00:34:57,303
Buried inside, the Queen
finally has the colony
298
00:34:57,386 --> 00:35:00,973
she sacrificed so much for.
299
00:35:01,057 --> 00:35:04,727
But to secure her dynasty,
she needs to go beyond
300
00:35:04,811 --> 00:35:07,647
producing workers...
301
00:35:09,774 --> 00:35:13,319
Laying new queens...
302
00:35:13,402 --> 00:35:16,989
to start
colonies of their own.
303
00:35:24,664 --> 00:35:27,208
To fuel this ambition,
304
00:35:27,291 --> 00:35:31,337
the colony needs
more and more leaves.
305
00:35:45,393 --> 00:35:50,940
With her fellow foragers, Atta
359 works through the night,
306
00:35:54,318 --> 00:35:59,699
under the glow of
bioluminescent fungi.
307
00:36:19,510 --> 00:36:21,470
Unknown to the colony,
308
00:36:21,554 --> 00:36:23,556
a new neighbor has moved into
309
00:36:23,639 --> 00:36:27,143
this quiet corner of the forest.
310
00:36:44,619 --> 00:36:48,039
Army ants.
311
00:36:48,122 --> 00:36:52,710
Half a million
all-female warriors.
312
00:36:55,254 --> 00:36:58,841
Army ants don't need a nest,
313
00:36:59,258 --> 00:37:02,011
instead they link bodies...
314
00:37:03,763 --> 00:37:07,600
creating a protective
shield around their queen.
315
00:37:13,064 --> 00:37:16,359
As the sun begins to rise...
316
00:37:16,442 --> 00:37:19,111
they go in search of food.
317
00:37:34,168 --> 00:37:39,215
Unlike the vegetarian
Leafcutters,
318
00:37:39,298 --> 00:37:43,928
these ants are carnivores.
319
00:37:49,976 --> 00:37:54,647
Each ant is armed with
a paralyzing sting...
320
00:37:54,730 --> 00:37:58,234
and lethal pincer-like jaws...
321
00:38:00,444 --> 00:38:03,739
To hunt...
322
00:38:08,828 --> 00:38:12,290
Catch...
323
00:38:15,334 --> 00:38:19,588
And dismember
even large insects.
324
00:38:33,227 --> 00:38:38,024
They can kill 30,000 a day...
325
00:38:42,945 --> 00:38:46,741
And while
leafcutters aren't prey...
326
00:38:49,243 --> 00:38:54,623
Their nest is right in
the army ant's path.
327
00:38:55,791 --> 00:38:58,753
♪ Ready or not, here I come ♪
328
00:38:58,836 --> 00:39:02,506
♪ You can't hide ♪
329
00:39:03,841 --> 00:39:06,802
♪ Ready or not, here I come ♪
330
00:39:06,886 --> 00:39:09,597
♪ You can't hide ♪
331
00:39:10,473 --> 00:39:13,434
♪ Ready or not, here I come ♪
332
00:39:13,517 --> 00:39:16,103
♪ You can't hide ♪♪
333
00:39:19,190 --> 00:39:21,525
As the raid
sweeps overhead,
334
00:39:21,609 --> 00:39:26,155
darker headed army ants
venture into the nest...
335
00:39:27,907 --> 00:39:32,078
And come face to face
with the leafcutter workers.
336
00:39:34,205 --> 00:39:36,665
Some take on the intruders...
337
00:39:42,296 --> 00:39:46,801
While others try and
protect their precious young.
338
00:39:51,389 --> 00:39:53,516
But the raid keeps on coming.
339
00:39:58,813 --> 00:40:03,234
One on one a leafcutter is
no match for an army ant...
340
00:40:10,825 --> 00:40:14,453
But Attas know
from their day job...
341
00:40:14,537 --> 00:40:19,291
That when they work together,
anything is possible.
342
00:40:19,875 --> 00:40:23,337
♪ So you wanna start a war ♪
343
00:40:23,963 --> 00:40:27,133
♪ In the age of our times ♪
344
00:40:27,216 --> 00:40:30,052
♪ So you wanna be immortal ♪
345
00:40:30,136 --> 00:40:33,264
♪ No you wanna start a war ♪♪
346
00:40:33,347 --> 00:40:36,892
Deep inside the
fungus, the queen has still
347
00:40:36,976 --> 00:40:39,270
got their back.
348
00:40:39,353 --> 00:40:42,857
She's been laying
a secret weapon.
349
00:40:44,859 --> 00:40:49,029
Hundreds of supersized
Atta warriors...
350
00:40:52,283 --> 00:40:57,580
And these giant jaws
aren't for cutting leaves.
351
00:41:00,458 --> 00:41:02,501
♪ War ♪
352
00:41:02,585 --> 00:41:05,421
♪ So you wanna start a war ♪♪
353
00:41:05,504 --> 00:41:09,258
Now the leafcutters
have the advantage.
354
00:41:14,013 --> 00:41:17,057
♪ War ♪
355
00:41:17,141 --> 00:41:20,019
♪ So you wanna start a war ♪
356
00:41:21,479 --> 00:41:24,231
♪ So you wanna start a war ♪♪
357
00:41:32,364 --> 00:41:36,202
And the
army ants turn...
358
00:41:36,285 --> 00:41:38,662
and run.
359
00:41:56,931 --> 00:42:01,519
Among the survivors
is Atta 359...
360
00:42:02,853 --> 00:42:06,607
She didn't do anything
especially heroic...
361
00:42:06,690 --> 00:42:10,486
but now she has
a role to play.
362
00:42:12,613 --> 00:42:15,866
Dead ants could
contaminate the fungus
363
00:42:15,950 --> 00:42:19,078
and must be disposed of.
364
00:42:21,330 --> 00:42:25,417
At two years old and nearing
the end of her own life,
365
00:42:25,501 --> 00:42:29,588
this job falls to her.
366
00:42:31,632 --> 00:42:35,803
Atta 359 carries the bodies
of her fallen sisters
367
00:42:35,886 --> 00:42:39,640
to the graveyard chamber...
368
00:42:39,723 --> 00:42:43,310
And casts them into the pit.
369
00:42:52,778 --> 00:42:58,158
This is vital work, and it's
the last thing she'll ever do.
370
00:43:01,036 --> 00:43:04,164
Now she's contaminated...
371
00:43:04,248 --> 00:43:08,210
So will never be allowed to
return to the inner nest,
372
00:43:08,961 --> 00:43:13,215
and must work in the graveyard
373
00:43:13,299 --> 00:43:16,760
until she herself... dies.
374
00:43:17,970 --> 00:43:22,808
But Atta 359's ok with that.
375
00:43:25,352 --> 00:43:29,523
She only ever existed
to serve the colony.
376
00:43:35,195 --> 00:43:40,117
And her life's work will
soon have been worth it.
377
00:43:41,452 --> 00:43:45,289
With the colony secure, the
queen has finally been able
378
00:43:45,372 --> 00:43:49,543
to produce a very special brood.
379
00:43:50,711 --> 00:43:55,049
Not only do these new
offspring have wings...
380
00:43:55,132 --> 00:44:00,304
For the first time,
they're not all females...
381
00:44:01,597 --> 00:44:05,100
Some are males.
382
00:44:23,202 --> 00:44:28,248
These flying ants will seek
mates from other colonies...
383
00:44:28,499 --> 00:44:33,629
Continuing the queen's
dynasty long into the future.
384
00:44:40,886 --> 00:44:44,098
Thousands will die...
385
00:44:44,181 --> 00:44:49,520
But those females that survive
to make nests of their own?
386
00:44:51,772 --> 00:44:54,858
They will be queens.
387
00:45:17,756 --> 00:45:19,842
In the bee nest,
388
00:45:19,925 --> 00:45:23,262
the next generation's
time has also come.
389
00:45:25,431 --> 00:45:28,016
Enslaved by her mother,
390
00:45:28,100 --> 00:45:31,687
Dila has built new cells...
391
00:45:34,064 --> 00:45:38,110
Which are used again
and again by the queen.
392
00:45:43,574 --> 00:45:48,454
Dila's had many brothers and
sisters who have all left.
393
00:45:49,580 --> 00:45:54,001
But none of her own eggs have
been allowed to develop...
394
00:45:54,376 --> 00:45:58,464
Her mother has eaten them all.
395
00:46:02,134 --> 00:46:05,888
Today Dila is alone,
396
00:46:06,972 --> 00:46:12,102
waiting for the queen
to return from feeding.
397
00:46:15,814 --> 00:46:18,650
What she doesn't know...
398
00:46:21,862 --> 00:46:25,282
Is that Glossa...
399
00:46:29,536 --> 00:46:33,665
Isn't coming back.
400
00:46:40,964 --> 00:46:44,676
Dila is no longer a servant...
401
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:49,389
From now on she's the queen.
402
00:46:51,892 --> 00:46:56,271
Her eggs won't be eaten...
403
00:46:57,564 --> 00:47:02,778
But her firstborn
daughter had better watch out.
404
00:47:05,155 --> 00:47:08,659
The queen is dead.
405
00:47:09,368 --> 00:47:12,579
Long live the queen.
406
00:47:17,042 --> 00:47:18,836
♪ Guess who is the mother ♪
407
00:47:18,919 --> 00:47:20,754
♪ Guess who is the mother ♪
408
00:47:20,838 --> 00:47:22,798
♪ Guess who is the mother ♪
409
00:47:22,881 --> 00:47:24,842
♪ Guess who is the mother ♪
410
00:47:24,925 --> 00:47:26,844
♪ Guess who is the mother ♪
411
00:47:26,927 --> 00:47:28,762
♪ Guess who is the mother ♪
412
00:47:28,846 --> 00:47:30,973
♪ Guess who is the mother ♪
413
00:47:31,056 --> 00:47:33,517
♪ Guess who is the mother ♪
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