Multimedia Release 14-Apr-2017

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

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

It's a Bird, It's a Plane... No, It's Rescue Ants (3 of 4) — image: 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*." view more

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

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