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This week, a court in Kenya sentenced four men to either a year in prison or a fine of £5,800 for trying to smuggle 5,000 ants out of the country. The contraband included highly-valued ants like the giant African harvester ant, and it’s believed these ants were intended for exotic pet markets abroad.
But all this talk of ant smuggling got the Unexpected Elements team feeling antsy to talk ants!
We learn about the earliest ants who lived among dinosaurs, ants that can sniff cancer, and ants who were sent into space!
Then we take a turn from ants to anteaters and talk to Mariella Superina from the International Union for Conservation of Nature about the different adaptations and skills needed for anteaters to successfully eat ants.
Plus, we discuss plant smuggling and ant wrangling, both unexpectedly dangerous ventures.
All that, plus many more Unexpected Elements.
Presenter: Marnie Chesterton, with Leonie Joubert and Godfred Boafo
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This week, a court in Kenya sentenced four men to either a year in prison or a fine of £5,800 for trying to smuggle 5,000 ants out of the country. The contraband included highly-valued ants like the giant African harvester ant, and it’s believed these ants were intended for exotic pet markets abroad.
But all this talk of ant smuggling got the Unexpected Elements team feeling antsy to talk ants!
We learn about the earliest ants who lived among dinosaurs, ants that can sniff cancer, and ants who were sent into space!
Then we take a turn from ants to anteaters and talk to Mariella Superina from the International Union for Conservation of Nature about the different adaptations and skills needed for anteaters to successfully eat ants.
Plus, we discuss plant smuggling and ant wrangling, both unexpectedly dangerous ventures.
All that, plus many more Unexpected Elements.
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