Hans-Jürgen Urban, executive board member of Germany’s industrial union IG Metall, speaks to workers of GKN, a British-owned multinational, who downed their tools in a warning strike in Offenbach, just east of Frankfurt, Feb.4. Tens of thousands of metal workers staged walkouts across Germany in pursuit of their demands for higher pay.
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Charity Dinner
A transvestite from a local travesty revue pictured at Ratskeller, a tavern inside Frankfurt’s historic city hall, during a charity dinner for the homeless served by local celebrities, Dec. 3. -
Make a U-Turn
A leafcutter ant carries a small piece of leaf along a twig, only to discover that it will have to make a U-turn in order to reach the ant nest at the Frankfurt zoo, Feb.14.
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Leafcutters
Leafcutter ants go along their business at the Frankfurt zoo, Feb.14. Interestingly, they just don’t eat the leaves (something I believed in for a long time), but process them instead and use them as a substrate for cultivating a fungus which they eat . This requires a highly developed social structure.
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