Hello, everyone. Welcome to Cool Facts About Animals. This is going to be a special episode where we got the

chance to interview Dr. Mark Moffat. The way we found Dr. Moffitt, also known as Dr. Bugs, is that Grady found

a super cool picture of a deadly yellow Terribless frog from Columbia that was taken by Dr. Moffitt,

and we learned that he also knows a lot about different kinds of bugs

and thought let's just reach out. And he responded back and we got to talk to him mostly about

ants, the kind that might be in your backyard but also the kind that hopefully aren't because they

can actually eat people. And we learned about his travel and adventures, including when he almost

got trampled by an elephant, not once but twice, and other interesting interactions. We also got

to speak to his wife, who had a lot of really interesting things to say. Her name is Melissa.

Anyway, I won't keep you any longer because I want you to listen. We hope you enjoy it.

My name is Mark Moffat.

I'm a biologist who likes to run around the world looking for strange critters.

And some of my favorite are the ants.

A lot of people don't like ants, but I think they're very cool because they do all kinds

of stuff.

And so they're constantly running around. They're actually behaving all the

time doing really cool things. So I ended up doing what I did when I was your age, which is watching

ants for a living. Unbelievable. What kind of species of ants do you study? Well, I like all kinds of ants, so I've worked for various ones.

You know, my favorite might be the army ants because they work in big swarms and I actually

study like how they behave compared to like the human military.

So they go out in these massive swarms and attack things

together and they have all these different techniques to bring down the enemy. So they're very

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