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If you're a loyal listener, welcome back. Today you'll learn about ants that play

doctor to their fellow ants after going into battle,

a possible game-changing way to sequester carbon at the bottom of the ocean, and the changes

that can happen in the female mind during menstruation.

Without further ado, let's satisfy some curiosity.

Imagine a scene from a movie. There is a battle, and the weary troops march back to their home base tired and a little worse for

where. Some of them have minor injuries that will heal right up but others have

scrapes that seem to be a little bit infected so their buddies rally and treat them with antibiotics to stop the infection.

I don't think I need to imagine.

I think that is just actually is a scene in just a bunch of different movies.

Okay, okay. Now imagine that instead of people, the soldiers coming back are

ants from an epic battle with termites. I still think that might be a scene in

like the movie, Ants, is it not it not I it's been a while I know it sounds it sounds familiar right

Ghost alone all right a new study has found that the Madabelli ants from regions south of the Sahara can distinguish between infected and non-infected

wounds and here's where it gets a little crazy, treat their wounds with antibiotics that their

own bodies produce.

Okay, I know that most animals and even plants have natural defenses against injury,

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