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Written recounting his travels and exploration in Kartabo, a village situated on the lower Mazaruni River in the Cuyuni-Mazaruni region of Guyana, Beebe conducted and recounted extensive research and analysis of wildlife within this text, demonstrating his remarkable skill as a naturalist, ornithologist and entomologist. Indeed, it is his interest in entomology for which this text is most widely known. Within 'The Edge of the Jungle' Beebe first discovered and recounted the natural phenomenon of the 'ant mill', where army ants who become separated from the rest of the foraging party begin to follow themselves in a circle or loop, until they die of exhaustion. Within the text, Beebe details the 'ant mill' to be 1200ft, or 370m in circumference, with an ant taking two and a half hours to make one loop.

Natural history --- Guyana --- Animal ecology --- Ornithology --- Entomology --- Ants