Ants know how to self-medicate, and consume toxic substances to fight fungal infections.
This finding was made by a team of biologists from the University of Helsinki, which decided to poison healthy ants with harmful hydrogen peroxide to prove the theory. The team wanted to show that a healthy ant would never ordinarily consume the substance, because of its toxicity, and that any consumption in the wild -- post-infection -- was in fact a deliberate act of self-medication.
By: Liat Clark,
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