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Show H Nature Fake. H Ants nro really very lopg-llved, con- 3ldertng their mlnutcnos'". A natural-H natural-H , 1st had two queons under observation K for ten. years nnd ono of Sir John H' Lubbock's nnt pots lived into her fit-H fit-H teenth year. Anfs aro very tenacious of llfo after sovero Injury Following H tho loss of tho ontlro abdomen they H. sometimes live two weels, and In ono li case a headless ant, carefully Uocapl-H. Uocapl-H. tated by aseptic surgery, lived 'for 11 Hi lays. A carpenter nnt, uftor being Mb oubmerged eight days In distilled Hfc water, came to life upon being dried, !jf so that thoy nro practically proof I against drowning. They can llvo long Iierlods without food; In ono caso tho fast lasted nearly nine months. |