leafcutter ant

There's also an impressive Leafcutter ant colony and a wildflower garden to enjoy.

For Atta mexicana, a tropical leafcutter ant that lives here at the northernmost limit of its range, the rain means it's almost time to mate.

Real name: Leafcutter ant These fellas can lift up to 50 times their own body weight.

"We've got one of the world' strongest animals - the leafcutter ant, as well as tortoises, Giant African land snails, penguins, ostriches, birds of prey and more."

Other recent additions include an interactive talking tree and leafcutter ant exhibition, while bush dogs and a falconry centre are also on the way.

Geometry explains the benefits of division of labour in a leafcutter ant. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, v.275, n.1640, p.1255-1260, 2008.

Whether a close-up of a leafcutter ant, or a micrograph of the neurons derived from marmoset stem cells, or an MRI of the hidden pathways in the human brain, submissions to the University of Wisconsin-Madison's 2015 Cool Science Image Contest continue to put science and nature on eye-catching display.

Karyotypes of the 3 leafcutter ant species of genus Atta, added to those of previously described karyotypes, were shown to be conserved in chromosome number, morphology and banding pattern, and constancy is inferred for chromosome number within the genus for the species studied to date.

& BOOMSMA, J.J., 2009.--Fungus Gardens of the leafcutter ant Atta colombica function as egg nurseries for the snake leptodeira annulata.

The leaf-chewing creatures, the leafcutter ant, are understood to form the second most complex societies on Earth after our own.