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Via Brazilian myrmecologist Rodrigo Feitosa comes this shot of conjoined leafcutter ant sisters. Two fully grown adult ants dorsally fused from abdominal segments 3 onward.
Incredibly, this developmental oddity was observed carrying leaf fragments in a foraging trail.
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