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	Parasitic butterflies fool ants with smell

Mohir

1-5-2008 7:17 AM

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1-5-2008 7:06 PM

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Fascinating! And that they have evidence that the process is even now changing in an ever complicated battle of trick and trickery evasion is amazing.

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