Ants treat certain leg injuries with life-saving amputations

 

Medical amputation isn’t a uniquely human form of medicine, it turns out. Some ant species will cut off the limbs of injured buddies when it’s necessary to save them.

(Image credit: Bart Zijlstra, UNIL)

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