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Ants are very interesting creatures. On our portal we told, for example, about the wars that they are organizing, as in in this they capture their enemies (other ants) and turn them into slaves.
Doesn’t resemble anything? But some of the species of ants turn out to be not averse to torturing your victims, creating real torture devices. These insects include the ante Azteca brevis. This species was discovered back in 1999 in Costa Rica. (Piedras Blancas National Park). However, only the other day scientists saw that these ants have sadistic tendencies, what was immediately told to readers of the Biological Journal Linnean society. That’s what the researcher says about it discovered phenomenon Marcus Schmidt:
We were extremely surprised and even puzzled to receive such experimental results. Moreover, some researchers do not believed in all this, why they went to the park on their own, to repeat it. And they made sure that Azteca brevis is not very common insects of the ant family. They really don’t they simply kill their victims, but as if they torture and torture them before this. Real sadists!
But what another researcher writes about these insects – University of Toulouse in France Alain Dejan:
These ants create special holes in the branches. plants in which they are sitting, as if in ambush, and waiting for prey (leaf-cutting ants, grasshoppers, etc.), which is most often once a 50 more than a single ant. As soon as the victim sits nearby ants simultaneously jump out of the shelter and grab it, then begin to slowly stretch, slowly tearing apart, as if really tortured and tortured. This process can take up to two hours and more.
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Scientists add that this creepy process is very reminiscent of medieval torture device – the rack.
However, as it turned out, the ants of Azteca brevis are not the only ones in a kind of sadists, their other species – Allomerus decemarticulatus – uses similar methods of hunting for its prey, followed by “torture” her. However, these choose a sacrifice that may exceed a single ant hundreds of times. Unusual tendency to torture This species of ants was spotted in 2006.
Currently, as the Biological Journal article writes Marcus Schmidt, scientists conducted a special investigation, and not found in nature more ants prone to sadism, except here these two kinds.
Still interesting creatures – ants, interesting and very cruel “guys” But not all the same …
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