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Ants are the only animals besides humans that perform life-saving surgeries (www.earth.com)

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[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (11 children)

“When we’re talking about amputation behavior, this is literally the only case in which a sophisticated and systematic amputation of an individual by another member of its species occurs in the animal Kingdom,”

says first author Erik Frank - again forgetting that humans are part of the animal kingdom too.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (10 children)

I mean in a technical sense, in a philosophical sense there's room for debate, in a lot of ways we've kinda moved beyond

[–] OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What does going beyond animals even mean? If we were cyborgs or some synthetic hybrids I could sort of see a differentiation, but we are still mammal animals.

[–] canihasaccount@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you don't already have some form of metal that has been intentionally added to your body, my guess is that you will before you die.

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