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Inspired by educational videos of the mid-20th century, we paired four poets with four expert scientists to tell tales of intriguing symbiotic relationships that exist in nature. Part two of our series examines ants and acacias' complicated lives without the presence of mutual destruction.

Poet: Kate Nuernberger | Scientist: Dr. Todd Palmer, PHD in biology, ants
Director & Animator: Chelsea Myers
Art Designers: Chelsea Myers & Becca Sullinger
Original Score: Mike Danger
Narrator: T'Keyah Thomas
Audio: Tim Pilcher
Producers: Camellia Cosgray, Paul Sturtz & David Wilson

Cocktail ants burrow, then hollow, then gall / the thorns, making a flute of the wind. / Other trees die of such invasion, but the whistling / thorn acacia secretes a nectar to feed these guests. / Sometimes a giraffe comes -- / the tree mimics ant pheromones and ants /respond in a biting and stinging frenzy. / You could say the tree learned to speak ant / and the ants learned to answer. / So much depends on the large herbivores. / In the absence of such dangerous hunger, / branches ask What’s in it for me? Desperate, the ants / lament in a tongue of unrestrained plundering. / How do you live without the sweet, grunting / melody of a beast learning to speak wind?

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