A Curious Combat.
A traveller in South Africa telM a singular combat he witnessed, He was musing one morning,: with his op on the ground,' when he noticed a caterpillar orawling along at a rapid pace. Pursuing him was a host of small ants. Being quicker in their movements, tho ants would catoh tip with the caterpillar, and one would mount his back and bite liiiu 'Pausing, the caterpillar .would turn his head, and bite and 'kill his tormentor, After slaughtering ■ a (lo?eu or more of his persecutors; tho caterpillar showed signs of fatigue. The ants made a combined attack. Betaking himself to a stalk of grass the caterpillar climbed up tail first, followed by the ants. : As one approached lie seized it in his jaws |ii(l threw it off the stalk, The ants, seeing that the caterpillar had too strong a position for. them to overcome, resorted- to. strategy,' They began sawing through the grass stalk. In-a few'moments' tho stalk fell, and hundreds of ants upon the ctttecpilljir. He was kjlled at once.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3090, 28 December 1888, Page 2
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174A Curious Combat. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3090, 28 December 1888, Page 2
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