Ants perform limb amputations

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Ants perform lifesaving limb amputations and diagnose injuries based on location

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Researchers have discovered that ants - specifically Camponotus floridanus - also perform lifesaving limb amputations and diagnose injuries based on their location on their bodies.

The only other animal to perform a similar type of purposeful amputation? Humans.

This is the only case in which a systematic amputation of an individual by another member of its species occurs in the animal kingdom.

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