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Researchers have just confirmed with experiments that this surgery and the other treatments ants provide each other do indeed save ant lives."Ants are able to diagnose a wound, see if it's infected or sterile, and treat it accordingly over long periods of time by other individuals,"Camponotus floridanus
Tibia wounds were treated with mouth cleaning, in which the treating ant held the delicate injured limb with its mandibles and front legs, licking the wound for extended periods. The survival rate increased from 40 percent for ants with untreated femur wounds to about 90 percent after amputation.Yet, the ants never amputated legs with wounds near the tibia. So Frank and team experimentally amputated tibia-injured ant limbs to find these ants' survival did not increase.
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