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Ants Recognise Infected Wounds and Treat Them with Antibiotics (www.uni-wuerzburg.de)
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[–] MalarchoBidenism@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ant-ibiotics kelly

[–] everett@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Anty-biotics.

[–] Goun@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

The cutest biotics around

[–] vim_b@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Dad joke of the year right here

[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 8 points 10 months ago

This is my current solution to the Fermi paradox, all life intelligent enough to colonize the galaxy were ants who realized that health care is more valuable than rockets

Hard to detect rf signals when they need like 5 feet for international calls

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

So ants are better doctors than people were until ~100 years ago.