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Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibiotics

www.uni-wuerzburg.de

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Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibiotics

www.uni-wuerzburg.de

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Ants Recognise Infected Wounds and Treat Them

www.uni-wuerzburg.de

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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Ants don’t even get sick they have ant-y-bodies
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I see what they did there…

ANTibiotics!
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This is genuinely the most amazing news I’ve heard in a while. Ants perform medicine… ?? 🤯

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