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From the Vault: Do ants make traps?

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Exploring Traps in Movies and Nature

The chapter delves into the fascination with traps in movies, discussing famous examples like Home Alone and Predator, and questioning the realism of trap sequences in films. It then shifts to exploring trap-building abilities in nature, focusing on creatures like spiders, ant lions, and burrowing owls, and questioning the rarity of pitfall traps in the animal world despite their simplicity and effectiveness.

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