Author: Tvara Parikh
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Paging Dr. Ant, It’s an Emergency
When you picture a surgeon, you probably don’t imagine one that’s barely a centimetre long, with six legs and a pair of antennae and yet in 2024 researchers found that Florida carpenter ants amputate the infected legs of their nestmates to save their lives. This makes them the first non-human animals to use amputation to…