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Meet the Ants That Can Perform Surgery to Save Lives.
Research on Florida carpenter ants reveals they employ advanced medical techniques like amputation and wound cleaning based on injury type, significantly enhancing survival rates compared to untreated cases. A new study published in Current Biology reveals that humans are not the only ones who sa
Research on Florida carpenter ants reveals they employ advanced medical techniques like amputation and wound cleaning based on injury type, significantly enhancing survival rates compared to untreated cases. Micro-CT scans of the femur showed it is largely composed of muscle tissue, suggesting it plays a functional role in pumping blood, referred to as hemolymph, from the leg into the main body. “Thus, because they are unable to cut the leg sufficiently quickly to prevent the spread of harmful bacteria, ants try to limit the probability of lethal infection by spending more time cleaning the tibia wound,” remarks senior author and evolutionary biologist Laurent Keller of the University of Lausanne.
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