How The Animals Inside Chernobyl Not Only Survive But Thrive

Every Ant For Himself

The trapped ants inside the bunker had resorted to eating their own kind as a source of food! Yes, these were cannibal ants and under a microscope, the team found ant bite marks on both alive and dead ants.

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Even strange than the cannibalism was that all the bite marks were usually found in one specific area on all the ants inside the colony, the abdomen. And yes, this story is about to get more gruesome.