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Falling ants glide back to trunk to avoid dangers of forest floor

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He and Dudley are applying for grants to do a more systematic survey to see how common gliding is among the hundreds of species of canopy ants as well as other insects that live in the trees, and to explore the biomechanics of their gliding.

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Yanoviak also is affiliated with the University of Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory in Vero Beach. The work was supported in part by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and with the assistance of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.

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