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These Ants Spray Their Victims with Acid Before Decorating Their Nests with Their Skulls – Newsweek
“They’re kinda like discarded chicken bones,” said Adrian Smith, who studies the Formica archboldi ants.
There is a species of ant that could be considered one of the most grotesque out there because of its unusual choice of home decor—the decapitated heads of their victims.
Scientific studies have consistently found Formica archboldi ants tend to keep lots of old body parts around their abodes. “A lot of ants are very clean, they’ll remove dead workers or left over food scraps,” said Adrian Smith, the Head of the Evolutionary Biology and Behavior Research Lab at North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
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