From what i gather, because they are rare and pretty cool. People will spend thousands on rare fish for their aquarium hobby, I could definitely see ant colony nerds paying that for a rare and apparently quite large african species.
And the things locals do to collect pretty fish are heinous beyond their comprehension. That $50 tropical fish could be one of a hundred collected on a reef that is now dead due to use of cyanide to stun it for easier collection.
From what i gather, because they are rare and pretty cool. People will spend thousands on rare fish for their aquarium hobby, I could definitely see ant colony nerds paying that for a rare and apparently quite large african species.
And the things locals do to collect pretty fish are heinous beyond their comprehension. That $50 tropical fish could be one of a hundred collected on a reef that is now dead due to use of cyanide to stun it for easier collection.