When ants go out on food foraging missions or out to battle, sometimes some of the ants get injured.
If an ant is injured, it will call for help by excreting a distress signal in form of a pheromone that indicates that it is hurt and needs to be treated. When help arrives, the injured ants tuck in their legs so they can more easily be carried back to the nest.
In other words, they call an ant-bulance and an ant paramedic will determine if the injured ant is deemed treatable, tend to their wounds and carry them back to the nest. If the wounded warrior has lost two many limbs they are left on the battle field to die.
The paramedics will actually take care of their casualties by vigorously licking the wounds and its thought that they even apply antibiotics to stop infections. This is an instinctual behaviour that reduces battlefield casualty deaths by 80 per cent.
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