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Show Ants That Protect Trees. Ttie au has always been an object of interest to man, ever since the days the sluggard was referred to it. Tiny as ants are, they display so many un-UBual un-UBual and apparently intelligent movements move-ments that they might be accused of thinking a good deal, if it wasn't for the danger of nature faking. There i a tree in South America, a beautiful, tropical growth with a Latin name, which is protected by a kind of ant which seems V have been pla'ced aa 1 a garrison of defense by some wlbe provision of nature Some of these ants may always be found doing sentry sen-try duty around the large leaves of the trees, and they serve to protect the leaves from the lc-af cuttlng ant, another an-other species which is disastrous to vegetation. At the approach of these leaf-cutting ants, the ants which guard the tree appear In great numbers and clean up the invaders. |