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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 2 years ago (2 children)

Ant-ibiotics kelly

[–] everett@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Anty-biotics.

[–] Goun@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

The cutest biotics around

[–] vim_b@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Dad joke of the year right here

[–] mayo_cider@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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