Argentine Invasion

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Science

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2012

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

From a suburban sidewalk in southern California, Jad and Robert witness the carnage of a gruesome turf war. Though the tiny warriors doing battle clock in at just a fraction of an inch, they have evolved a surprising, successful, and rather unsettling strategy of ironclad loyalty, absolute intolerance, and brutal violence.

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0:23.6	Look, it's a gated community with electric gates. Electric gates.
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0:30.6	It's nice out here...
0:31.6	We're on a road trip in Escondito, California.
0:35.6	Just close to San Diego.
0:36.6	Regular suburban neighborhood. Sprinklers, lawns. Nice houses. Pretty ordinary. Except... This might be him. Do you think that's him? For David Holway. Hey, how's going? How are you? David is an ecologist and an evolutionary biologist from UC San Diego. And when we saw him, he was standing in the street.
0:54.9	Oh, he's got the things. He's got the things.
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