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Ants perform life saving operations — the only animal other than humans known to do so (www.livescience.com)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

I think so, but the article makes it clearer what is meant here: This is about operations as in surgeries. The ants in the study were observed performing life-saving amputations and the like.

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