Channel: Facts in Motion

Category: Education

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Description: Some animals have developed astonishing strategies for survival. Like the ant-decapitating fly, which lays their eggs inside ants, so their larvae can feast on their brains. Sources: livescience.com/21326-smallest-fly-decapitates-ants.html web.archive.org/web/20090516023741/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fn%2Fa%2F2009%2F05%2F13%2Fnational%2Fa062256D48.DTL biocontrol.entomology.cornell.edu/parasitoids/pseudacteon.php entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/beneficial/flies/ant_decapitating_phorids.htm web.archive.org/web/20090522005217/http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090512/sc_mcclatchy/3231765 youtube.com/watch?v=pFVvOo1Qd_8 Music by Jay Man Tracks used: ourmusicbox.com/ms_song/Past-Reflections ourmusicbox.com/ms_song/Sound-of-Silence ourmusicbox.com/ms_song/Web-of-Deceit ourmusicbox.com/ms_song/No-Momentum ourmusicbox.com/ms_song/Nightmare-on-my-street Thanks for watching. creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0