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Trailhead By Edward Osborne Wilson: Summary
While I was reading Trailhead, I felt like I am in a history class; sitting at a desk, listening to my professor… Because narrator tells us the story from the very beginning, start of the colony, the peak years as their civilization expands, the decline as the Queen goes weak, chaos as she dies and last of all collapse as a rival, vibrant colony senses their weakness and invades.

In Trailhead by Edward Osborne Wilson, the life of the Trailhead Colony ants is described. The story starts with the death of the queen ant. Then it explains how the colony was created by her. It was not easy but it paid off with a successful colony that lasted decades. Then the queen ant died, she was replaced by the new Soldier-Queen, but the colony doomed to die,
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