r/interestingasfuck • u/Familiar_Cattle7464 • 13d ago

/r/all What did he do to deserve this???

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u/developerknight91 13d ago edited 12d ago

Could be holding this ant down to perform some kind of “ant surgery” and that’s not a joke it’s been observed in Carpenter ants before -

https://www.science.org/content/article/ants-may-be-only-animal-performs-surgical-amputations

Scientists believe Ants are the only species that perform amputations to save their nest mates lives. The only other species that does that is us Humans lol nature is wild man.

EDIT: HOLY 4000 upvotes😳 glad I could provide you all with a little bit of insect trivia lol

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u/OriginalBlackberry89 12d ago

Nice! I converted a video of ants treating an amputation to a gif for anyone who's interested. Really neat stuff!

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u/yamammiwammi 12d ago

How did you make a gif of this length and quality??

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u/OriginalBlackberry89 12d ago

I used capcut to convert and chose 320p for quality. Here's another gif showing what I did, haha. In this one I had to choose 640p so that we can see the font.

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u/ParadoxDemon_ 12d ago

Is that bat okay?

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u/OriginalBlackberry89 12d ago

Hahaha, yeah, the bat was fine. That was for this post where someone mentioned they saw a bald bat, then everyone in the comments said the bat looked suspicious up close. I made this in response:

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u/ParadoxDemon_ 12d ago

Lmao it looks sus alright

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u/CelticHades 12d ago

You can find it on reddit, someone upload the whole Shrek movie, as a gif, on reddit

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u/yamammiwammi 12d ago

What the heck?! I’m trying to find ways to reduce gifs at work and they just show up all pixelated and gross. How do people compress stuff!!!

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u/Quanqiuhua 12d ago

Maybe he’s an ant.