UK / International accent - Nature documentary - (attempted cover of) David Attenborough
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Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
Australian British (General)Transcript
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incredibly, 80% of insects of all insects live in jungles. Few are more successful than the ends. That could be eight million individuals in a single hectare. Jungle Ants don't have it all their own way. These bullet hands are showing some worrying symptoms. Spores from a parasitic fungus called core triceps have infiltrated their bodies and their minds. It's infected. Brain directs this ant upwards thin, utterly disorientated. It grips a stem with its mandibles. There's afflicted, if discovered by the workers are quickly taken away and dumped. Far from the cold, it seems extreme, but this is the reason why, like something out of science fiction, the fruiting body of the court sets erupts from the ant's head. It can take three weeks to grow, and when finished, the deadly spores were bussed from its tip. Then any ant in the vicinity will be in serious risk of death. The fungus is so virulent it can wipe out whole colonies of that's and it's not just at that fall victim to this killer. There are literally thousands of different types of court accepts from on a remarkably, each specializes on just one species. But these attacks do have a positive effect on the jungle's diversity. Since parasites like these stop any one group of animals getting the upper hand, the more numerous a species becomes more likely it will be attacked by its nemesis. A court accepts fungus.