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| | California Academy of Sciences - Natural History Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | A wide variety of chocolates and chocolate-related products will be available in the Academy store, including chocolates from local vendors; organic and fair trade chocolates; chocolate incense, body frosting, scented soaps, lip gloss, and candles; chocolate books and cookbooks; Mexican clay chocolate pots, and much more. |
 | | This part of the exhibit is brought to life at the Academy by a colony of 80,000 Leaf Cutter ants, which harvest leaves from the rainforest (including cacao leaves!) and use them to cultivate gardens of fungus. |
 | | It is pollinated by tiny flies called midges, which thrive in the decaying leaf litter of the rainforest floor and tend to stay close to the ground, so its flowers grow directly on the trunk and lower branches. |
| www.calacademy.org /naturalhistory/chocolate.cfm (1018 words) |
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