Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe LIVERPOOL, England, Aug. 2 (UPI) -- A British museum has finally gotten its leafcutter ants to walk a tightrope. The World Museum Liverpool installed the ants in April in their Bug House, putting them in a box and their leaves in another one nearby, with the tightrope in between, the Liverpool Daily Post reports. Advertisement Joanna Rowlands, a museum spokeswoman, said that for months the ants just sat in their box. "Apparently, they have to adapt and grow in their new environment," she said. "They have only just started using the rope now, and it's amazing to watch. They dip into the box and take a leaf back with them over the rope." Leafcutter ants, from the American tropics, grow a fungus in their nests for food, making them the only farmers in the world aside from humans. They cut leaves to serve as the base for the fungus.
