TIL that ants are the only non-human species that performs successful amputations. This study shows that Carpenter ants spend up to an hour slowly biting off an injured fore-limbs from their nestmates, increasing their survival chance by ~75%
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(24)00805-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0960982224008054%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
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