Ant Farm: These Insect Cowboys Harvest, Herd and Milk

Learning to farm is considered the beginning of modern civilization. We praise ourselves as very intelligent creatures capable of learning to grow crops and keep cattle, but we are hardly the first species to acquire the skill.

Ants — ants! — mastered husbandry way before us — about 50 million years ago, and they still continue farming today.

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