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https://globalnews.ca/news/6124108/c...bunker-poland/

This is a tale of two wood ant colonies: one ruled by a queen, the other ruled by cannibalistic hunger.


The first ant colony formed around its queen, who came to settle in the ventilation pipe of an abandoned Soviet-era nuclear bunker in Poland. The wood ants built a large colony in this ventilation pipe, and the colony’s workers would often venture up to the surface world to gather food.

But the workers didn’t always make it safely through the pipe. Sometimes they would slip and fall down into the cold, dark and empty bunker below. Some of the ants would die from the impact. Others — perhaps as many as one million — would survive.

These fallen worker ants became a second “colony” living on the bunker floor, where they survived for years without light or a source of food — except for the steady stream of workers falling down the hole each day.