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If you were still a peanut in the 21994s: sitting on a chair the wrong way, spread eagling, was kind of a thing.
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Ant researchers have identified the molecular and neural cues that help explain social behaviors, including caring for young, breeding — even capturing and spread-eagling upstarts, like tiny police officers.
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The researchers also have identified the molecular and neural cues that spur ants to act like nurses and feed the young, or to act like queens and breed more young, or to serve as brutal police officers, capturing upstart nestmates, spread-eagling them on the ground and reducing them to so many chitinous splinters.
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The first few ants to arrive will each grab a different leg and pull in opposite directions, "spread-eagling" the prey. This is basically identical to the medieval torture tactic of "rack torture". Anywhere between six and 16 ants will participate in this spread-eagling. As the prey lies motionless and helpless, worker ants will congregate and either help to hold the prey down, if that is necessary, or start stinging and biting it.
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Daceton armigerum is a Neotropical species of arboreal ants, distributed throughout northern South America. D. armigerum combines several traits generally noted in some other arboreal ants i.e., populous colonies, large and/or polydomous nests, intra- and interspecific aggressiveness, trophobiosis, and capturing prey by spread-eagling them.
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Workers are visual predators that hunt diurnally; by keeping their long trap-jaw mandibles open to ca. 180° they are frequently able to capture a wide range of prey, including relatively large items that they retrieve in groups of up to six ants. During prey capture, the workers can sting the prey; their poison gland contains a mixture of pyrazines. Through group-hunting, short-range recruitment and spread- eagling prey, workers can capture a wide range of arthropods, the largest weighing up to 90 times the weight of an ambushing worker.
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