Crazy Ants Neutralize The Southern Fire Ants' Toxic Bite | Video

Thursday, February 13, 2014 - 14:31 in Biology & Nature

In the first clip, crazy ants and fire ants fight over a grasshopper carcass. The crazy ants are able to clean themselves with a secretion that detoxifies the fire ants' potent bite. The second clips show this cleaning behavior more clearly.

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