Jumping Ants! Gigantiops destructor

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Special thanks to Prof Andy Suarez for making this video possible: Twitter: AndrewVSuarez

Josh collected these ants, in part, thanks to the Whitten Fellowship from UIUC’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Stay tuned for a summary of Josh's paper on the mechanics of the Gigantiops jump!

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References:
Wheeler's "Cyclopean insect-jaguar" description: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi...
Gigantiops maze experiment: https://link.springer.com/article/10....
Myrmecia & Harpegnathos jumps: https://asu.pure.elsevier.com/en/publ...
Odontomachus trap-jaw jumps: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wil...
Odontomachus jumping video: Trap-jaw ants jump forward and backwa...

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