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Extremely Metal Ant Species Uses Medieval Torture Rack on Its Enemies

Started By StopSpazzing , Apr 24 2018 1:36 PM

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#1 Offline StopSpazzing - Posted April 24 2018 - 1:36 PM

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Wow, twisted. Another interesting species.

Azteca brevis

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#2 Offline VoidElecent - Posted April 24 2018 - 1:43 PM

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Ruthless. I always considered Azteca to be peaceful and nonviolent, guess I was wrong. Apparently, they do this with other ants, as well.


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#3 Offline LC3 - Posted April 24 2018 - 2:06 PM

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I’ve always recalled Azteca as being highly territorial and aggressive.

The name sort of gives it away.
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#4 Offline AntsMaryland - Posted April 24 2018 - 3:51 PM

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Ruthless. I always considered Azteca to be peaceful and nonviolent, guess I was wrong. Apparently, they do this with other ants, as well.

I mean... their genus name is Azteca ... Like the Aztecs... Who were RUTHLESS. Quite a fitting name for a genus of ant...


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#5 Offline Serafine - Posted April 25 2018 - 1:19 AM

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It's not really that special, a lot of ants do that, particularly weaver ants which can even catch small vertebrates like Geckos that way. Even my Camponotus barbaricus use that method to pin down crickets (and my Camponotus generally kinda suck at teamwork).


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#6 Offline StopSpazzing - Posted April 25 2018 - 3:29 PM

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It's not really that special, a lot of ants do that, particularly weaver ants which can even catch small vertebrates like Geckos that way. Even my Camponotus barbaricus use that method to pin down crickets (and my Camponotus generally kinda suck at teamwork).

didn't know weaver ants wait for pray to step on their bored out hole in something then grab on, and pull them in.


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