The living pantrySourced
An ant stores food
in its swollen abdomen.
Some workers of Australia's Camponotus inflatus become living stores of sweet liquid. They stay deep in the nest and share food with their colony when needed. Aboriginal Australians have also traditionally harvested these honeypot ants as food.
The pantry
is alive.
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