Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!A bizarre hoard of ants stored in 250 individual tubes shocked workers who opened a mystery sealed box.Incredibly some of the ants were still wriggling inside their tiny containers, despite having nothing to live off for eight months.The surviving critters will be rescued by a safari park keeper after a company that buys unclaimed boxes from delivery companies, reported their find to the RSPCA.Lucy Smith from the animal charity's Folkestone branch in Kent where the box was open, admitted the discovery was "confusing".
The welfare officer said a tiny bit of tissue inside each tube must have kept some of the ants alive for all that time cooped up in the dark, KentOnline reports.
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