futurebird,
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Everyone running around excited a non-human primate "used medicine to treat wounds"

I'm just over here looking at ants who have been doing this since before you were an inkling on the evolutionary tree and wondering what the big deal is.

Whatever it is ants did it first.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-ants-can-diagnose-and-treat-their-comrades-infected-wounds-180983526/

llewelly,
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@futurebird
I've decided the next step in human evolution should be to just give up and trick ants into taking care of us, like that large blue butterfly or that snail I just posted about. Who needs x-men type powers when you can sit back and have ants bring you food and protect you?

twizzt,
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@futurebird Caterpillars who have parasitoids eat toxic leaves as well. There was something else that ate toxins too rid themselves of nematodes. I want to say grasshoppers but I honestly don't remember.

richpuchalsky,
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@futurebird

Cool, but it's not tool use. The ants are using medicine that they evolved to secrete -- that's different than using a plant leaf

futurebird,
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beans_please,
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@futurebird sounds like ant propaganda to me

futurebird,
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@beans_please

noo! I'd never!

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