A species of ants is capable of treating the leg wounds of nestmates, including through biting off the injured appendage to prevent fatal infection and enable more in the colony to survive, a team of scientists from European and Japanese universities has found.The discovery of such behaviors among Florida carpenter ants was made public in the U.S. science journal Current Biology earlier this month.Evan Economo, a team member and professor at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, said it was the first confirmation that the ants can differentiate injury types and ad…READ FULL ARTICLE
