Erik T. Frank
@etf1989.bsky.social
Emmy Noether Group Leader at @Uni_Wue 🇩🇪 studying the Evolution of Social Wound Care in Ants and beyond 🐜 🌴🐝🦍🚑
Thanks for sharing Christian and glad you liked it 🙂🐜🚑🐜
January 23, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Thanks for sharing Christian and glad you liked it 🙂🐜🚑🐜
Thanks for sharing it! Its indeed a great/short summary 🙂🐜🚑🐜
January 18, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Thanks for sharing it! Its indeed a great/short summary 🙂🐜🚑🐜
Very cool picture! Already working on it, hopefully you wont have to wait much longer to hear about injury transport and more in Eciton 😉🐜🚑🐜
January 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Very cool picture! Already working on it, hopefully you wont have to wait much longer to hear about injury transport and more in Eciton 😉🐜🚑🐜
I forced myself to start reading my books during commute (instead of mindlessly scrolling on my phone). Get almost one hour of reading done like this a day and working through my backlog of books!
December 1, 2024 at 4:49 PM
I forced myself to start reading my books during commute (instead of mindlessly scrolling on my phone). Get almost one hour of reading done like this a day and working through my backlog of books!
Its indeed crazy, I had to try it myself and its scary how good it is! My prompt was literally: "Create an image from what you know about me using Legos" bsky.app/profile/etf1...
Thought I might give this a go after getting inspired by @ricaliari.bsky.social so here it goes: a picture of what ChatGPT things I do using Legos 😅🐜🐜🏥
November 28, 2024 at 10:15 AM
Its indeed crazy, I had to try it myself and its scary how good it is! My prompt was literally: "Create an image from what you know about me using Legos" bsky.app/profile/etf1...
We also have many more social wound care projects being worked on: in Eciton, Dinoponera other Megaponera populations across Africa, Ooceraea... 🐜even in ants treating tree wounds 🐜🌴 or chimpanzees 🐒using insects to treat their own injuries! You can check it all out on our Homepage: www.antcare.eu
Social Wound Care Evolution
www.antcare.eu
November 26, 2024 at 7:19 PM
We also have many more social wound care projects being worked on: in Eciton, Dinoponera other Megaponera populations across Africa, Ooceraea... 🐜even in ants treating tree wounds 🐜🌴 or chimpanzees 🐒using insects to treat their own injuries! You can check it all out on our Homepage: www.antcare.eu
While in the genus Camponotus ants instead prefer to amputate the injured leg to prevent the infection from spreading, a first in the animal kingdom! Interestingly, amputations are only effective for injuries at the femur, but not the tibia. 3/4 www.cell.com/current-biol...
Wound-dependent leg amputations to combat infections in an ant society
Frank et al. provide the first example of the use of amputations to treat infected
leg wounds in a non-human animal. The findings demonstrate that ants can adapt their
treatment modality depending on ...
www.cell.com
November 26, 2024 at 7:19 PM
While in the genus Camponotus ants instead prefer to amputate the injured leg to prevent the infection from spreading, a first in the animal kingdom! Interestingly, amputations are only effective for injuries at the femur, but not the tibia. 3/4 www.cell.com/current-biol...
In the ant Megaponera analis nestmates not only carry back injured individuals and nurse them back to health inside the nest, but they can also detect if the wound is infected and apply antimicrobial secretions from the metapleural gland to cure the infection. 2/4
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Targeted treatment of injured nestmates with antimicrobial compounds in an ant society - Nature Communications
Infected wounds pose a major mortality risk in animals and are common in predatory ants. Here, the authors show that M. analis ants apply antimicrobial compounds produced in the metapleural glands to ...
www.nature.com
November 26, 2024 at 7:19 PM
In the ant Megaponera analis nestmates not only carry back injured individuals and nurse them back to health inside the nest, but they can also detect if the wound is infected and apply antimicrobial secretions from the metapleural gland to cure the infection. 2/4
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Very cool, could you add me too please? 🐜🐜🐜
November 23, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Very cool, could you add me too please? 🐜🐜🐜