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/ Aborigine women still sometimes practice this harvest on the plains where the mulga tree grows. The Melophorus bagoti ants live in symbiosis with this tree.///Les femmes aborigènes pratiquent encore cette récolte à l’occasion dans les plaines ou pousse l’arbre mulga. Les fourmis Melophorus bagoti vivent en symbiose avec cet arbre.
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