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🐜🏥 Ants perform emergency medical care in the field! 🩺🌳
Researchers found Florida carpenter ants assess wounds & selectively treat injured nestmates with cleaning or amputation. Treatment boosts survival rates by up to 95%! 🐜🩹
#AntMedicine #EmergencyCare #AnimalBehavior #SurprisingScience

🔗 https://www.oist.jp/news-center/news/2024/7/5/ants-perform-emergency-medical-care-field

Ants perform emergency medical care in the field

Florida carpenter ants treat wounds and perform amputations to save lives with high survival rates.

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology OIST