The
tiny endangered Madagascar-base d Adetomyrma ant has a strange way to
showlove to its kiddos. The ants practice something known as
"non-destructiv e cannibalism." When the colony's queen gives birth to
ant larvae, she and her workers chew holes in the tiny babies to feed on
their haemo...lymph
– their circulatory system fluid (which would be blood in mammals).
Scientists can't say exactly why these ants do this -- ants have asocial
behavior of transferring fluids to eachother, so they may be practicing
a rudimentary form of that behavior. The baby ants don't die, but
sucking blood from the young is a weird way to show vampire affection.See More
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