Florida carpenter ants, or Camponotus floridanus, can perform leg amputations on each other, determining the necessity based on wound location, a study in Current Biology reveals. These ants, often injured in territorial battles, use amputation as an effective wound treatment. The process, taking about 40 minutes, involves one ant chewing off the affected leg while another cleans the new wound. Researchers in Switzerland observed that the ants selectively conduct these amputations.