Arthropod on arthropod violence

How does a swarm of army ants take down a heavily armored fresh water crab? Let’s find out…


That’s gotta be a pretty terrible way to go.

Red in mandible and pincer…

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1 Response to “Arthropod on arthropod violence”


  1. 1 Liz Allen March 18, 2010 at 1:19 pm

    We liked this video and your post. We shared it on our Twitter stream and linked to your site. Really quite extraordinary footage. Folks who want to follow PLoS on Twitter can do so at http://twitter.com/PLoS.


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