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In Histories, the Greek historian Herodotus described a fox-sized “golden ant” that lived in one of the Indian provinces of the Persian Empire. These giant ants would often bring gold dust to the ground while digging their burrows. Later, a French ethnologist reckoned that Himalayan marmots were the gold-digging ants Herodotus referred to.

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