The last of the series in which Jolyon Jenkins examines the skills that animals have developed and asks how humans can learn from their examples. Australian ants produce a powerful antibiotic which they use to paint the walls of their homes to prevent the spread of infection. As we run out of drugs to combat the increasing problem of antibiotic resistance in human bacterial infections, scientists are turning to animals for the next generation of anti-microbial drugs.

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