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How do leafcutter ants cut leaves off of trees?

Visit https://teamtrees.org to dontate to #TeamTrees Special thanks to Leaf House Scientific (https://www.leafhousescientific.com/) for supplying the ants and to Dr. Fred Larabee (  / bugbiter  ) for the microCT images of Atta internal head musculature. Here's a reading list for more info on leafcutters and references for some of the info in this video A good place to start reading about leafcutter ant biology is: Hölldobler & Wilson (2010) “The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct” https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393340877 “In a day, a mature leaf cutter ant nest can cut and gather 100,000s of leaf fragments” Wirth et al. (2003) “Herbivory of Leaf-Cutting Ants: A Case Study on Atta colombica in the Tropical Rainforest of Panama” https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-052... Evolutionary transition dates for fungus farming and leaf-cutting: Schultz & Brady (2008) “Major evolutionary transitions in ant agriculture” PNAS https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0711024105 Vibratory signals during leaf cutting: Roces & Hölldobler (1996) “Use of stridulation in foraging leaf-cutting ants: mechanical support during cutting or short-range recruitment signal?” Behav Ecol & SocioBiol https://doi.org/10.1007/s002650050292 Vibratory signals during digging and sound recording clip: Pielström & Roces (2012) “Vibrational communication in the spatial organization of collective digging in the leaf-cutting ant Atta vollenweideri” Anim Behav https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.201...