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From the Ted Talk by Charles Wallace: When you're an ant but also a fungus tycoon

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foargres work tirelessly over the following months. They caetre thousands of trails, stretching hundreds of meters. All of them are perfumed with the ants’ pheromones and constantly cleaned to function as efficient hyaiwghs. Meanwhile, the queen lays thousands of eggs every day and is tended to by members of her entourage, which nourish her with the large, infertile eggs they lay.

Among enclosures containing garbage and growing larave, workers tend fungal gnraeds in various chambers throughout the colony. They prune bits of the fungus to stimulate gotwrh and stcltigealray open and close scurafe tunnels, controlling the humidity.

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________ work tirelessly over the following months. They ______ thousands of trails, stretching hundreds of meters. All of them are perfumed with the ants’ pheromones and constantly cleaned to function as efficient ________. Meanwhile, the queen lays thousands of eggs every day and is tended to by members of her entourage, which nourish her with the large, infertile eggs they lay.

Among enclosures containing garbage and growing ______, workers tend fungal _______ in various chambers throughout the colony. They prune bits of the fungus to stimulate ______ and _____________ open and close _______ tunnels, controlling the humidity.

Solution


  1. surface
  2. strategically
  3. larvae
  4. create
  5. growth
  6. highways
  7. gardens
  8. foragers

Original Text


Foragers work tirelessly over the following months. They create thousands of trails, stretching hundreds of meters. All of them are perfumed with the ants’ pheromones and constantly cleaned to function as efficient highways. Meanwhile, the queen lays thousands of eggs every day and is tended to by members of her entourage, which nourish her with the large, infertile eggs they lay.

Among enclosures containing garbage and growing larvae, workers tend fungal gardens in various chambers throughout the colony. They prune bits of the fungus to stimulate growth and strategically open and close surface tunnels, controlling the humidity.

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Important Words


  1. bits
  2. chambers
  3. cleaned
  4. close
  5. colony
  6. constantly
  7. controlling
  8. create
  9. day
  10. efficient
  11. eggs
  12. enclosures
  13. entourage
  14. foragers
  15. function
  16. fungal
  17. fungus
  18. garbage
  19. gardens
  20. growing
  21. growth
  22. highways
  23. humidity
  24. hundreds
  25. infertile
  26. large
  27. larvae
  28. lay
  29. lays
  30. members
  31. meters
  32. months
  33. nourish
  34. open
  35. perfumed
  36. pheromones
  37. prune
  38. queen
  39. stimulate
  40. strategically
  41. stretching
  42. surface
  43. tend
  44. tended
  45. thousands
  46. tirelessly
  47. trails
  48. tunnels
  49. work
  50. workers