It's a Bird, It's a Plane... No, It's Rescue Ants (3 of 4) (IMAGE)

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It's a Bird, It's a Plane... No, It's Rescue Ants (3 of 4)

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An ant (Megaponera analis) handicapped by a clinging termite is carried off by a foraging African stink ant (Paltothyreus tarsatus). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 12, 2017 issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by E.T. Frank at University of Würzburg in Würzburg, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "Saving the injured: Rescue behavior in the termite-hunting ant Megaponera analis."

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[Credit: Frank <i>et al.</i> Sci. Adv. 2017;3:e1602187]

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