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♪ ♪
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[Narrator] You might think
life is simple
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for an ant no bigger
than a grain of rice,
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or a little peanut-sized bee.
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Both just starting out
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still safe in their nests.
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But now it's time to venture
into the outside world,
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and life is about
to get complicated.
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Welcome to the jungle,
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a bewildering tangle of life.
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The rain forests
of Latin America
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are home to a third
of all species on Earth.
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[squawk]
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This place is bug-tropolis.
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With thousands of different
kinds of bugs
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living on each tree.
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The only way to survive
somewhere so crowded
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is to find your place,
do your job,
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and watch your back.
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[chomp]
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Now, our two young rookies must
figure out where they fit in.
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Turns out, even the smallest,
most insignificant-looking bug
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has a huge role to play.
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♪ ♪
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[birds chirping]
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Basking in tropical sun
and full of growth,
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the canopy is the perfect place
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for an eager young orchid bee
to find flowers.
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He's fueling up
for a busy first day.
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A very special mission
for a very special bee.
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[buzzing]
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He's a handsome little guy
for sure,
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but lady bees are more
interested in how he smells.
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So, to attract a mate,
he needs to create a scent
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that smells
as sweet as he looks.
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[buzzing]
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But becoming a master perfumier
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takes more than visiting
a few flowers.
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There are more interesting
fragrances in the forest.
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The trick is finding them.
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Good thing orchid bees
can travel 15 miles a day.
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In bee terms, that's like
flying from New York to LA.
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Only his flight path
won't be so straightforward.
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Down on the forest floor,
it's a whole other world.
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Only 2% of sunlight
reaches here,
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so there's not
much fresh growth.
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Not a great start
for the newest recruit
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to the leafcutter labor force.
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Her only job is to collect
fresh green leaves.
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Slim pickings down here.
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So, somehow she has
to get way up there.
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[bird squawking]
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But it's her first day.
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Where to begin?
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Luckily, a quarter a million
sisters can show her the way.
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The trail: nature's most
impressive production line.
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A highway leading
right into the canopy.
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Signposted all the way
with pheromones.
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But to a first-timer,
it's chaos.
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[cars rushing by, honking]
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Every few inches,
she gets stopped.
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[honking]
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[siren]
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Everyone's telling her
where to go, what to do.
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[cars rushing by]
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Stay calm.
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There's a method
to this madness.
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The ants coming in
tell the ants going out
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where the best leaves are.
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And today's tree
is 300 feet away.
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In ant land,
that's a 10-mile commute.
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Oh, man.
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This could take a while.
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[buzzing]
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Nothing slow about
this little explorer.
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With three extra eyes
sensitive to polarized light,
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he can navigate by the sun
even when he can't see it.
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Buzzing at 20 miles per hour,
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he's searching
for perfume ingredients,
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with antennae that can detect a
single molecule on the breeze.
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Mmm.
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What's that sweet smell
coming from the forest floor?
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Oh.
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Nothing sweet
about an elephant beetle.
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Maybe it's the cocoa pod
he's munching on.
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[buzzing]
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Mmm, chocolate!
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He soaks up the scent
with his fluffy front feet...
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...then squeezes it
into special perfume pouches
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on his back legs.
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A good start.
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Who doesn't like chocolate?
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But that's only one ingredient.
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He needs to blend
a perfume cocktail.
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So this mixologist
better move quick.
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Thankfully, he's one of
the best flyers in the forest.
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Hold up. A challenger?
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[bug] Eee! Ow!
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[Narrator] Nah, never mind.
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Onwards, mix master!
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[buzzing]
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There's plenty of scents
to choose from
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on the forest floor.
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[frog chirping]
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Fancy flowers,
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funky fungi,
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even earthy aromas.
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But there's also
danger down here.
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The jungle's top predator
is on patrol.
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[purring]
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No, not these guys.
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They're just pussy cats.
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[purr]
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This forest is haunted
by something far deadlier.
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A creature that can kill
30,000 times a day.
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And it's not just one of them;
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it's a swarm.
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Army ants.
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Each one is only half an inch,
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but when half a million
are on the march...
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...they destroy any bug
in their path.
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And once they've
decimated one area...
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...they move on to the next.
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The little leafcutter
hasn't met
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her carnivorous cousins yet,
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but sooner or later,
their paths will cross.
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[birds chirping]
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[Narrator] Two hours
into her first day,
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and she's almost at the tree.
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But down here, you're always
at the mercy of the heavens.
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[cars honking]
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It's gridlock.
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[honking, siren]
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Debris on the highway can make
traffic 10 times slower.
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[cars honking]
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She's running late.
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But don't worry,
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there's a dedicated team
of road workers
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for jobs like this.
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[jackhammering]
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[cars honking]
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[jackhammering]
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[truck beeping]
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♪ ♪
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Finally, time
for her first ascent.
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♪ ♪
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Getting to the canopy
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is like scaling
20 Empire State Buildings.
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♪ ♪
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Just keep following the trail.
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Don't mind King Kong,
he's a big softy.
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[buzzing]
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The bee can home in
on ant pheromones, too.
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But they're not pungent enough.
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Mmm. Millipede smells
kinda almondy.
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On the right track,
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but full of cyanide.
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Keep trying, though.
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The best scents have
the most unlikely sources.
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[buzzing]
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♪ ♪
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Once a week, sloths descend
to the ground.
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Like all things they do,
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it's a slow process.
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All that time just to find
a place to--
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[pooping]
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Hmm.
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Could that be?
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[buzzing]
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Oh, man.
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Is he really?
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Oh, that's, that's
a little disgusting.
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Okay, maybe not the sweetest
thing he'll land on,
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but dung is a source
of skatole.
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It helps keep a scent
lingering on the air.
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Even human perfumiers use it.
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And lady bees love it.
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Just don't tell her
where it came from.
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Well, that's number two
in the bag.
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Just one last ingredient
to finish off this fragrance.
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[squawking]
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Up in the treetops,
there's a fresher breeze.
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Finally our little leafcutter
has reached the canopy.
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So this is where
the harvest happens.
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Everyone's working hard
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before the weather turns.
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[thunder]
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Slicing through leaves
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and bouncing their booties
as they go.
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It creates rhythmic vibrations
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that other ants feel
in their feet.
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[chattering]
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Like a leafcutter samba,
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it gets everyone joining in
where the good leaves are.
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[crunching]
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[crunching]
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[rhythmic chattering]
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After that long commute,
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she's getting
her groove on, too.
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With jaw muscles a quarter
of her body weight
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and serrated
syncline mandibles,
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even a first-timer
can power through her work.
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This is almost too easy.
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Rookie error.
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Well, that's certainly
a quicker way down.
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But this is no place
for a leafcutter
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to be lost and alone.
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The army ants have
set up camp close by.
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A living fortress
made of soldiers.
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But they don't rest for long.
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With half a million
mouths to feed,
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they need to hunt every day.
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♪ ♪
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The leafcutter better find
her sisters quick.
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The army is so close.
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She can almost smell them.
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Wait, that's not army ants.
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It's something more familiar.
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Faint at first,
getting stronger...
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the trail!
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Back on track.
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Close to the nest and still
carrying her precious leaf.
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Just one tiny problem:
it's toxic.
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[record scratch]
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Hold on, you're telling me
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the ants can't even
eat these leaves?
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After all that effort?
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Yep. Seems so.
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They have a workaround
that will blow your mind.
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Leafcutter ants
are amazing farmers.
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They figured out how to turn
toxic leaves into compost.
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And they use it to cultivate
a very special fungus.
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It only grows
in leafcutter nests,
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and it feeds the entire colony.
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It's made them the most
successful vegetarians
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in the jungle.
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♪ ♪
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But this colony is small
and vulnerable.
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It needs to grow bigger.
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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The queen can lay
25,000 eggs a day.
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But more ants need more food.
281
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So, it's up to every
little leafcutter
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to keep those leaves coming in.
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♪ ♪
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[birds chirping]
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[buzzing]
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Our orchid bee
has been busy, too,
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searching for that
final ingredient.
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Nothing going on down here.
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[buzzing]
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But an amazing aroma
is coming from above.
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♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
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Now, that's no ordinary
floral fragrance.
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It's a very special
kind of orchid.
295
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Unfortunately,
he's late to the party.
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♪ ♪
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00:19:34,631 --> 00:19:36,758
Bucket orchids produce
a rare scent
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to attract orchid bees.
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00:19:40,762 --> 00:19:42,389
And it works.
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♪ ♪
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[buzzing]
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00:19:52,065 --> 00:19:56,612
So many males here, a little
bee must learn to muscle in.
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♪ ♪
304
00:20:02,784 --> 00:20:05,245
But most of the good stuff's
been taken.
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00:20:05,329 --> 00:20:10,626
♪ ♪
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Gotta reach further.
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♪ ♪
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A bit further...
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00:20:18,634 --> 00:20:20,093
[squeak, splash]
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A small slip-up.
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00:20:25,057 --> 00:20:28,185
But it could lead
to big problems.
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[thunder]
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Most afternoons,
dark, heavy clouds roll in.
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[thunder]
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It's called the rain forest
for a reason.
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♪ ♪
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14 feet of the stuff
falls each year.
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♪ ♪
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00:21:00,717 --> 00:21:04,054
These downpours are
the life source of the forest.
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♪ ♪
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00:21:09,101 --> 00:21:11,061
But from a bug's perspective...
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♪ ♪
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00:21:15,023 --> 00:21:16,400
...it's Armageddon.
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♪ ♪
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[muffled music]
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♪ ♪
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00:21:26,618 --> 00:21:29,746
Each drop hits like a bomb.
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00:21:29,830 --> 00:21:34,626
♪ ♪
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♪ ♪
330
00:21:41,466 --> 00:21:44,594
And rain can be way more
destructive than that.
331
00:21:47,431 --> 00:21:50,726
Bromeliad plants are
designed to catch water.
332
00:21:52,686 --> 00:21:55,480
The biggest can hold
five gallons.
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00:21:55,564 --> 00:22:01,028
♪ ♪
334
00:22:01,111 --> 00:22:02,779
Even when the storm stops...
335
00:22:04,114 --> 00:22:06,116
[squeegee squeaking]
336
00:22:06,199 --> 00:22:10,454
...a quarter of the rainfall
is still trapped in the canopy.
337
00:22:10,537 --> 00:22:11,955
[creaking]
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00:22:12,039 --> 00:22:16,585
♪ ♪
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00:22:16,668 --> 00:22:20,380
One branch can only
take so much.
340
00:22:20,464 --> 00:22:22,883
[creaking]
341
00:22:24,551 --> 00:22:29,014
And now the elephant beetle
is flying up to the canopy.
342
00:22:29,097 --> 00:22:34,061
♪ ♪
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00:22:34,144 --> 00:22:38,273
One of the world's
heaviest insects.
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00:22:38,357 --> 00:22:43,278
♪ ♪
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00:22:43,362 --> 00:22:44,780
Uh-oh.
346
00:22:44,863 --> 00:22:47,866
♪ ♪
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00:22:47,949 --> 00:22:49,785
[creaking]
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00:22:49,868 --> 00:22:51,787
♪ ♪
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00:22:52,371 --> 00:22:53,455
[gulp]
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00:22:54,748 --> 00:22:57,334
♪ ♪
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00:23:03,423 --> 00:23:06,551
Falling branches are
a daily hazard here.
352
00:23:10,514 --> 00:23:12,015
But to a bug...
353
00:23:12,099 --> 00:23:15,894
♪ ♪
354
00:23:15,977 --> 00:23:19,856
...it's like your whole world
355
00:23:19,940 --> 00:23:22,275
has come crashing down.
356
00:23:29,783 --> 00:23:36,289
[bird squawking]
357
00:23:40,544 --> 00:23:43,338
[Narrator] The survivors emerge
from the wreckage.
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00:23:43,422 --> 00:23:45,882
♪ ♪
359
00:23:45,966 --> 00:23:50,887
♪ ♪
360
00:23:50,971 --> 00:23:54,099
But the little bee is trapped.
361
00:23:57,352 --> 00:24:00,439
Right now, that might be
a good thing.
362
00:24:00,522 --> 00:24:06,653
♪ ♪
363
00:24:06,736 --> 00:24:09,698
Maybe just stay put.
364
00:24:09,781 --> 00:24:13,118
♪ ♪
365
00:24:13,201 --> 00:24:19,749
♪ ♪
366
00:24:19,833 --> 00:24:23,837
The army ants have located
the leafcutter nest.
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00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:30,802
♪ ♪
368
00:24:30,886 --> 00:24:37,642
♪ ♪
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00:24:37,726 --> 00:24:41,062
It's the perfect size;
370
00:24:41,146 --> 00:24:44,316
small enough to invade,
371
00:24:44,399 --> 00:24:47,235
big enough to plunder.
372
00:24:49,237 --> 00:24:51,490
It's eggs they're after.
373
00:24:51,573 --> 00:24:58,330
♪ ♪
374
00:24:58,413 --> 00:25:02,209
The leafcutter ants
fight valiantly.
375
00:25:02,292 --> 00:25:06,046
[swords clashing]
376
00:25:06,129 --> 00:25:08,173
But they're outnumbered.
377
00:25:08,256 --> 00:25:11,510
♪ ♪
378
00:25:11,593 --> 00:25:14,221
[shouts of battle]
379
00:25:14,304 --> 00:25:16,014
♪ ♪
380
00:25:16,097 --> 00:25:18,767
The army has breached
the nursery.
381
00:25:20,227 --> 00:25:24,481
The little leafcutter
can't save the eggs now.
382
00:25:24,564 --> 00:25:27,609
But sensing an alarm signal,
383
00:25:27,692 --> 00:25:30,654
she does something
extraordinary.
384
00:25:33,198 --> 00:25:35,325
Joining the other workers,
385
00:25:35,408 --> 00:25:38,453
she becomes part
of a living shield,
386
00:25:40,497 --> 00:25:43,208
surrounding their queen,
387
00:25:43,291 --> 00:25:45,752
keeping her safe from attack...
388
00:25:45,835 --> 00:25:49,256
[swords clashing]
389
00:25:49,339 --> 00:25:52,425
...while the invaders
just keep coming.
390
00:25:52,509 --> 00:25:56,680
♪ ♪
391
00:25:56,763 --> 00:25:59,224
Once all the eggs
have been taken...
392
00:25:59,307 --> 00:26:02,102
♪ ♪
393
00:26:02,185 --> 00:26:05,188
...finally, the raid is over.
394
00:26:05,272 --> 00:26:08,942
♪ ♪
395
00:26:09,025 --> 00:26:13,154
[birds chirping]
396
00:26:16,825 --> 00:26:18,910
It's safe to come out now.
397
00:26:21,496 --> 00:26:23,915
But it's a tight squeeze.
398
00:26:23,999 --> 00:26:28,128
Just what the orchid intended,
399
00:26:28,211 --> 00:26:31,756
so it can stick two pollen sacs
to his back.
400
00:26:34,301 --> 00:26:35,885
[pop]
401
00:26:35,969 --> 00:26:38,555
The orchid needs someone
to carry its pollen
402
00:26:38,638 --> 00:26:40,599
to other flowers.
403
00:26:40,682 --> 00:26:46,021
♪ ♪
404
00:26:46,104 --> 00:26:49,357
And there's no better
delivery boy
405
00:26:49,441 --> 00:26:51,568
than this little bee.
406
00:26:51,651 --> 00:26:56,406
♪ ♪
407
00:26:56,489 --> 00:26:59,409
On his quest for new scents,
408
00:26:59,492 --> 00:27:02,245
he helps rare plants,
409
00:27:02,329 --> 00:27:04,289
strange mushrooms,
410
00:27:04,372 --> 00:27:08,209
even the biggest trees
to reproduce.
411
00:27:08,293 --> 00:27:11,338
♪ ♪
412
00:27:11,421 --> 00:27:16,134
His exploring ways keep the
whole forest growing strong.
413
00:27:16,217 --> 00:27:20,221
♪ ♪
414
00:27:24,517 --> 00:27:26,895
Back in the ant nest,
415
00:27:26,978 --> 00:27:31,107
one little leafcutter has made
a huge difference, too.
416
00:27:33,234 --> 00:27:38,990
Her selfless nature
helped save the day,
417
00:27:39,074 --> 00:27:41,117
which saved the queen.
418
00:27:41,201 --> 00:27:44,329
♪ ♪
419
00:27:44,412 --> 00:27:48,500
As long as she's alive,
the colony can rebuild.
420
00:27:48,583 --> 00:27:52,962
♪ ♪
421
00:27:53,046 --> 00:27:56,591
But only with the help
and dedication
422
00:27:56,675 --> 00:27:59,344
of every little leafcutter.
423
00:27:59,427 --> 00:28:01,888
♪ ♪
424
00:28:01,971 --> 00:28:06,434
♪ ♪
425
00:28:06,518 --> 00:28:09,229
So, she better
get back to work.
426
00:28:09,312 --> 00:28:14,484
♪ ♪
427
00:28:14,567 --> 00:28:18,571
It's easy to overlook
the things little creatures do.
428
00:28:20,365 --> 00:28:23,326
But look closer.
429
00:28:23,410 --> 00:28:25,578
If these two tiny young bugs
430
00:28:25,662 --> 00:28:30,542
can play such vital roles
in the rain forest,
431
00:28:30,625 --> 00:28:35,547
imagine the amazing things
all the others do
432
00:28:35,630 --> 00:28:39,050
to keep this
wonderful world alive.
433
00:28:40,635 --> 00:28:45,640
[birds chirping and squawking]
434
00:28:45,724 --> 00:28:48,143
As for the bee,
435
00:28:48,226 --> 00:28:52,021
well, maybe all his hard work
was worth it after all.
436
00:28:52,105 --> 00:28:55,859
♪ ♪
437
00:28:55,942 --> 00:28:59,988
It's time to try out
his signature scent.
438
00:29:01,948 --> 00:29:07,245
The best perfumes are more than
a fragrance; they tell a story.
439
00:29:09,581 --> 00:29:12,459
A tale of an intrepid bee
440
00:29:12,542 --> 00:29:17,297
with the skill to survive
an epic jungle journey.
441
00:29:19,215 --> 00:29:25,513
And all because a lady loves
the scents of adventure.
442
00:29:25,597 --> 00:29:29,267
♪ ♪
443
00:29:29,350 --> 00:29:31,811
His very first display...
444
00:29:31,895 --> 00:29:34,773
♪ ♪
445
00:29:34,856 --> 00:29:38,610
...and already he seems
to have an admirer.
446
00:29:38,693 --> 00:29:42,655
♪ ♪
447
00:29:42,739 --> 00:29:45,074
Not bad for a newbie.
448
00:29:45,158 --> 00:29:48,620
♪ ♪
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