You can also get a bug's eye view of the ants' underground nest at the San Diego Zoo's Children's Zoo, something you wouldn't be able to see in the wild.
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00:00You can see these ants in the Children's Zoo at the San Diego Zoo, and our invertebrate exhibit is called Spineless Marvels, and the leafcutter ant exhibit is the newest exhibit.
00:13Well, what you'll see in the exhibit is a simulation of what you would see in the wild, which is leafcutter ants cutting down trees, practically, several hundred of them carrying leaves down into their underground nest.
00:25What you will see in our exhibit that you won't see in the wild is the underground nest, and you'll see a series of subterranean fungus chambers.
00:34Well, they're governed by no one, which is one of the most fascinating things about them.
00:38There are worker ants, which are all sterile females, and males are only produced during times of reproduction.
00:45There's a queen, but she doesn't tell anybody what to do.
00:48She's simply the reproductive member of the colony, and in this case, with leafcutter ants, she can live 15 to 20 years.
00:55And produce 300 million ants in her lifetime.