Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An ant species can amputate each other's legs and can also determine whether it is needed depending on the location of the wound, ...

When an ant injures its leg, it sometimes will turn to a buddy who will help out by gnawing the leg off, effectively performing a lifesaving limb amputation. That's according to some new experiments ...

In a still from a video, an ant at the bottom of the image bites off the leg of a wounded ant with a purple marker on its back. Danny Buffat Researchers have observed Florida carpenter ants ...

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