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Can animals perform surgical amputations? The seems that they could not. But now a study shows that they could. Surprising tactic may be way to prevent entire colony from being infected by bacteria.
”In his 11 years studying ant behavior, biologist Erik Frank had never seen anything like it. He and his colleagues at the University of Würzburg brought Florida carpenter ants back to their lab in Germany to learn how they respond to injury. Most ant species treat thte injured or severed limb of a comrade by coating it with an antimicrobial goo. But the reddish-brown carpenter ants took a different tack: They bit the remainder of he limb off, effectively amputating it.”
God has rewarded the ants with intelligence design, which
makes them do things other animals could
not.
Source:
HUMBERTO BASILIO , 2024, Ants may be the only animal that performs surgical amputations Science 2 July
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