Bringing this forward from something Elroch posted in the public forums.
Ant species discovered, literally performs surgery on each other!!
https://abcnews.go.com/International/ants-perform-leg-amputations-needed-study/story?id=111638736
An ant species can amputate each other's legs and can also determine whether it is needed depending on the location of the wound, a new study finds.
Ants are territorial and can get into rough encounters with rival colonies which can lead to injuries, according to scientists. But Florida carpenter ants--also known as Camponotus floridanus--have adopted an effective wound treatment: amputation, according to the study published in Current Biology.
The process of amputation takes about 40 minutes and requires one ant to chew on its nestmate's affected leg, according to Laurent Keller, one of the researchers in the study.
"They go to the upper parts [of the ant's leg and] the mandibula will cut it," Keller told ABC News. "The other ant will clean the new wound."
After a researcher reported his observation of amputation to other researchers in a lab in Switzerland, they noticed that the carpenter ants selectively conducted amputations.
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I am creating this thread, because I do not see another one like it in the forums. (To my surprise.)