When an ant injures its leg, it sometimes will turn to a buddy who will help out by gnawing the leg off, effectively performing a lifesaving limb amputation. That's according to some new experiments ...

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Humans aren’t the only ones capable of performing amputations to save lives. Florida carpenter ants have been observed biting off the injured limbs of nestmates, depending on the location of the ...

Lab experiments show that some ants will treat the injured legs of comrades, and when it's necessary will even perform medical amputations. (Bart Zijlstra, UNIL) When an ant injures its leg, it ...

When an ant injures its leg, it sometimes will turn to a buddy who will help out by gnawing the leg off, effectively performing a life-saving limb amputation. That’s according to some new experiments ...

Interestingly, ants would only perform an amputation when an injury was high up on an ant's leg, close to the middle of its body. Wounds lower down on the leg didn't elicit this treatment, although ...