But why? A podcast for curious kids is known for serious answers to silly questions sent

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This is But Why. A podcast for curious kids. I'm Jane Lindholm and I'm standing outside

my office at Vermont Public Radio right now looking for ants. Well, if I'm truly being

honest, I'm on my hands and knees and I'm focused on a little ant hill that's in a crack.

It's right next to the sidewalk, but it's in a patch of dirt kind of underneath a tree.

So it's shaded. And there are all these ants going in and out of the little hole in this

little ant hill that they've created. And some of the ants seem to be taking little bits

of stone or dirt out from inside their home and dumping them on the outside, maybe spring

cleaning or something like that. And then this one little ant that I've been watching picked

up a piece of leaf, a tiny little piece for us. But for this ant, it's way bigger. The

piece of leaf is way bigger than the ant. It's this dried brown kind of dead leaf. And

the ant has been struggling to carry it back to her home. But the leaf is flat and light.

And it's very windy here today. I don't know if you can hear it. And at one point, the

breeze picked up and it hit the leaf and it almost acted like a sail. The leaf almost

acted like a sail. And the ant was almost carried off in the wind by this little piece of

leaf. But now it's trying to get the leaf into the ant hole. The hole is not big enough.

So I don't know what's going to happen. It's kind of fascinating to watch. You may not

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