<story><title>Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibiotics</title><url>https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/ant-antibiotics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eigenket</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s insanely impressive and almost scary level of adaptation&amp;#x2F;smart behaviour from the ants.&lt;p&gt;Edit: it feels more like something you&amp;#x27;d read from Adrian Czajkowski&amp;#x2F;Tchaikovsky rather than reality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>20after4</author><text>Have you seen what else ants can do?  They are full of insanely impressive&amp;#x2F;scary&amp;#x2F;smart behaviors.&lt;p&gt;Ants farm aphids.  They don&amp;#x27;t just find aphids and collect their &amp;quot;honeydew&amp;quot; excretions. They actually bring the aphids to the plants and then tend to them.&lt;p&gt;Ants harvest the sunflower seeds from my sunflowers.  Not just some of the seeds. If I leave the flowers even one day past the time to harvest those seeds, the ants get every single seed.  They do it by having some ants up on the flower popping out the seeds, and more ants down below collecting them off the ground.  That&amp;#x27;s some incredible coordination.  And these are tiny ants, not some big powerful ants. It&amp;#x27;s mind boggling to think any creature is able to pull it off.  I&amp;#x27;m honestly surprised they don&amp;#x27;t have megalithic structures built of huge stones.   Though their underground colonies are megalithic in scale compared to the ants.&lt;p&gt;Maybe instead of ancient aliens we should look into ants as the actual builders of the pyramids.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ants recognise infected wounds and treat them with antibiotics</title><url>https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/ant-antibiotics/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eigenket</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s insanely impressive and almost scary level of adaptation&amp;#x2F;smart behaviour from the ants.&lt;p&gt;Edit: it feels more like something you&amp;#x27;d read from Adrian Czajkowski&amp;#x2F;Tchaikovsky rather than reality.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bayindirh</author><text>Assuming only the humans have certain traits or level of intelligence&amp;#x2F;knowledge in some areas of life becomes a more foolish act as we discover what other living things are capable of.&lt;p&gt;I, for one, welcome our ant overlords.</text></comment>