TERMITES ATTACK
	In Central African Republic, Manjas hunt and eat termites as it is a tradition and for their calories.
	A queen taken out of a termite mound by a Manja.
	These termite hunters contemplate the queen before she is devoured.
	This woman devours the queen. Only women are allowed to eat the queen, in order to become fertile or to prolong their youth.
	Men content themselves with devouring some soldiers termites as an apetizer.
	This man is rain maker. When heavy rains, which announce the termites' swarming, don't come, termites hunters call him.
	This "termitarium woman" suffers from her articulations. She is in fact covered with termites' mud.
	For this traditional medicine man from the Ivory Coast, termites mud is an excellent orthopaedic poultice.
	This "termitarium woman" suffers from her articulations. She is in fact covered with termites' mud.
	In Central African Republic, Dr. N'Donazi uses termites to cure ulcers.
	Dr. N'Donazi applies a Macrothermes soldiers termites grind on a young woman's wound.
	Bernard N'Donazi travels through Central African Republic to inform people about his methods and to teach people how to use them.
	Bernard N'Donazi is invited at the presidential palace for a conference on healer termites. He receives the honors from the President of Central African Republic.
	Dr. N'Donazi applies a Macrothermes soldiers termites grind on a young woman's wound.
	In Central African Republic, for the Nzakara, termites are an oracle. This man puts down small sticks which he will let on the termite mound for a whole day. Termites give their response by devouring or respecting the small sticks.
	The sacred termite mound of Savalou in Benin. This termite mound is considered as the home of gods and hens, sheep, and goats are being sacrificed to insure a good harvesting.
	In Benin, students still learn the occidental point of view : termites = harmful insects.
	Marc-André Bernier samples the termite mounds using the techniques of the old Africans to find gold.
	Marc-André Bernier examines his last gold samples with the village's chief.
	After the mechanical drilling, gold particles are looked for in the collected samples.
	Marc-André Bernier looking for a new area to prospect…
	An inhabitant of the village holding the result of the samples collected on a termite mound.
	Marc-André Bernier prospecting new areas, accompanied by the inhabitants of the village and their chief.
	Accompanied by the chief of the village, Marc-André Bernier stores his last samples.
	Marc-André Bernier exploring a termite mound, looking for gold.
	In Burkina-Faso, the popular theatre is an occasion to prove the benefits of termite farmers.
	Dr. Alain Brauman, from the Research and Development Institute, surrounded with termite mounds, extracts and analyzes the digestive tract of a termite.
	Pr. Corinne Rouland-Lefevre, from Paris XII University, and Dr. Alain Brauman analyze a mushroom collected on a mushroom termite mound.
	Mushroom present on a termite mound. The mushroom termites grow these mushrooms and eat them to make easier their digestion of food.
	In Japan, Kaido Sun, a termites' exterminator, come and pray for termites to rest in peace.
	Names of termites are written on these funerary plates. These plates are then symbolically put back in a stone-built house.
	Some termites are real architects. As a proof, this termite mound, worthy of one of the most beautiful cathedrals.
	Termite mound in a trunk.
	Some termites are real architects. As a proof, this termite mound, worthy of one of the most beautiful cathedrals.
	Termite mound of termite humnivores.
	In Africa, lots of termite mounds are sacred.
	Termite mound of termite humnivores.
	This termite mound is installed inside a tree.
	Some termite mounds install themselves anywhere! Even on pipelines…
	In Australia, magnetic termites build homes of several meters from the West to the East, and of a few centimeters from the South to the North.
	In Australia, magnetic termite mounds are used as compass.
	In Australia, magnetic termites build homes of several meters from the West to the East, and of a few centimeters from the South to the North.
	Some mosques of Burkina-Faso and Mali have copied the termite mounds' architecture.
	In Scotland, Sandy Halliday, from Gaia Architects, presents the model of her project inspired by animal architecture for the Edinburgh zoo.
	In England, the University of Leicester has enormous chimneys of 13 meters high which attract fresh air in the building. Air conditioning has been conceived upon the principle of a termite mound.
	In England, the Tax Office of Nottingham has been designed upon the model of a termite mound…
	In Australia, aboriginal people use eucalyptus branches to make "Yidaki" (didgeridoo).
	This eucalyptus branch has been digged by termites.
	An aboriginal playing Yidaki (didgeridoo).
	1.000 years old, Yidaki is the oldest instrument in the world.
	In New Orleans, termites cause havoc on wooden habitations…
	In New Orleans, termites infest trees and so cause many accidents.
	Gregg Henderson inspects trees eaten in the inside by termites before being cut down. Here, he takes out a nest which counted about a million of squatters…
	Some householders leave their houses for a few days, in order for their house to undergo an anti-termites gassing.
	Gas is one of the solutions to try to get rid of termites in one's house.
	Books eaten by termites.
	This squad of canine detectives is specialized in the anti-termites fight.
	Daisy, detective dog among the anti-termites squad.
	Brian Forscher tries to understand family connections between termites' colonies by identifying them with colors which become fluorescent under UV.
	Termite seen with an electron microscope.