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Wednesday, 22 June 2011 |
 Queen, worker ants and eggs of the species Cardiocondyla mauritanica (courtesy: University of Regensburg, Germany) In ant colonies queens live longer if they do not compete with other
queens. Competition with other queens reduces the life span and the
amount of eggs produced by each single animal. This amazing finding was
recently revealed by zoologist from the University of Regensburg,
Germany. The scientists compared ant states with one single, two and eight
queens and used different colonies of the ant species Cardiocondyla
obscurior.
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
 Titan arum in the botanical garden of Bonn, Courtesy: University of Bonn, Germany It is the largest flower known on earth and it is rarely to see in botanical gardens world wide: Amorphophallus titanum (Titan arum) - growing naturally in Indonesia in rainforests - now gave the honour to some 10.000 visitors at the botanical garden in Bonn, Germany. Only some 2-3 days the impressive spectacular is lasting. Only 10-15 times since 1937 this giant plant showed its 3 metre flowers.
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