{"id":303490,"date":"2024-07-05T18:21:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T12:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=303490"},"modified":"2024-07-05T18:21:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T12:51:50","slug":"scientists-discover-ants-have-evolved-effective-wound-treatment-through-amputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scientists-discover-ants-have-evolved-effective-wound-treatment-through-amputation\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover ants have evolved effective wound treatment through amputation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source-This post on<strong> Scientists discover ants have evolved effective wound treatment through amputation <\/strong>has been created based on the article <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.indianexpress.com\/3888262\/Delhi\/July-05-2024#clip\/75380966\/89c6defe-6d27-4cbc-a1d2-370096df80a4\/1600:455.8207547169813\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Scientists Discover ants have evolved effective wound treatment: Amputation&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> published in \u201cIndian Express\u201d on 5 July 2024.<\/p>\n<h2>Why in the news?<\/h2>\n<p>Scientists found that <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Florida carpenter ants<\/span> perform amputations on their injured nest mates as a form of wound treatment.<\/p>\n<h2>Key Findings of the study<\/h2>\n<p>1. Amputations are <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">performed only on certain leg injuries, suggesting methodical and targeted surgical practices<\/span>. This is the first known instance of an ant species using amputation to treat an injury.<\/p>\n<p>2. Amputations <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">significantly improve survival rates<\/span>, with ants surviving 90% of the time after amputation of limbs.<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong>Consensual Amputations<\/strong>: The procedure appears consensual, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">with injured ants presenting their leg to another ant for amputation<\/span>. After the leg is amputated, the wounded ant cleans the wound itself, followed by another ant finishing the cleaning process.<\/p>\n<p>4. <strong>Selective Amputations<\/strong>: Amputations are <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">only performed on ants with thigh injuries<\/span>, not on lower leg injuries.<\/p>\n<p>5. Researchers tracked amputees and found that survival rates of those with lower leg injuries were only 20%. Scans revealed multiple muscles in the ants&#8217; thighs that help in <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">hemolymph regulation<\/span>, making thigh injuries less fatal.<\/p>\n<p>6. It has been found that <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">thigh injuries result in rapid infection spread if not amputated<\/span>, leading to the evolution of this behavior in ants. The behavior indicates a complex level of social organization and understanding among ants.<\/p>\n<p>7. This <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">finding might suggest similar behaviors in other species<\/span> and provides insight into ant social dynamics and medical behavior.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPSC Syllabus: Science and technology<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source-This post on Scientists discover ants have evolved effective wound treatment through amputation has been created based on the article &#8220;Scientists Discover ants have evolved effective wound treatment: Amputation&#8221; published in \u201cIndian Express\u201d on 5 July 2024. Why in the news? Scientists found that Florida carpenter ants perform amputations on their injured nest mates as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/scientists-discover-ants-have-evolved-effective-wound-treatment-through-amputation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Scientists discover ants have evolved effective wound treatment through amputation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738],"tags":[11872,10500],"class_list":["post-303490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}