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        "description": "<p>In this flooded forest, the family that swims together stays together... as a living raft! But plenty of predators see these floating fire ants as an easy snack.</p>", 
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        "title": "Fire Ants Make Living Raft", 
        "url": "http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/animals/bugs-animals/ants-and-termites/weirdest-fire-ant-raft/", 
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                    "url": "http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/04/pictures/110425-fire-ants-life-rafts-swarms-science-proceedings/", 
                    "name": "Nat Geo News: Fire Ant Swarms Form Living Life Rafts"
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        "transcript": "<p>Narration:</p><p>Our unlikely heroines are fire ants, a colony several hundred thousand strong.</p><p>Rapacious, tenacious and industrious, they are impossible to eradicate as long as their queen is alive.</p><p>But their colony faces just such a threat-the river beside it is flooding.</p><p>The deluge rushes in...what else to do then, but swim!</p><p>The colony floats out, as a living raft.</p><p>The most precious members of the colony, the larvae and the queen ant, are kept safely dry in the middle.</p><p>The queen ant can give birth to some three million ants over her lifetime.</p><p>If they can reach dry land, they stand a good chance of rebuilding.</p><p>But there is danger below.</p><p>The fish pick off the ants one by one.</p><p>If enough ants are pulled down, the raft will collapse and the colony will be destroyed.</p><p>The ants grimly hold on, and reach the other side.</p><p>They hoist the ant larvae up to dry ground, ensuring the survival of their colony for future generations.</p><p>And with their survival secure, the fire ants revert to type...attacking every living thing in sight.</p>", 
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