April 27, 2005
WANTED: Very Small Executioner Hoods

BBCnews is carrying this report detailing a rather startling method of predation recently found in a species of ant:

A fierce species of Amazonian ant has been seen building elaborate traps on which hapless prey are stretched like medieval torture victims, before being slowly hacked to pieces.
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There is no limit to the ants' ambition and they will attempt to catch any mammoth of the insect world - so long as it has slender legs.

Color me glad I have big feet!

Posted by scott at April 27, 2005 11:43 AM

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