Ants Recognise Infected Wounds and Treat Them with Antibiotics
Ants Recognise Infected Wounds and Treat Them with Antibiotics
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The African Matabele ants are often injured in fights with termites. Their conspecifics recognise when the wounds become infected and initiate antibiotic treatment.
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Ant-ibiotics
24Anty-biotics.
9The cutest biotics around
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Dad joke of the year right here
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This is my current solution to the Fermi paradox, all life intelligent enough to colonize the galaxy were ants who realized that health care is more valuable than rockets
Hard to detect rf signals when they need like 5 feet for international calls
8So ants are better doctors than people were until ~100 years ago.
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