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Santa Claus, 13.07.2007 9:30

Born camponotus with four legs, and the absence of a pair of legs does not look like a defect.
Please tell me why this is happening. Is this a common occurrence among ants?

picture: camp_4_legs.jpg

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13.07.2007 10:36, RippeR

Kruuto!

13.07.2007 13:50, sealor

I'll repeat what I wrote on tarantulas smile.gif
Santa Claus,
Yes, I have often read about such developmental disorders-this is when some segments do not develop. And this is relatively common, just if the abdominal segment falls out, then it is poorly noticeable. You can take a closer look at this ant, maybe it doesn't have all the segments yet, or maybe it lacks certain parts of the brain because they are connected to segments.
Moreover, this is a violation of embryonic development usually, and not a mutation, and anyway there would be a mutation - it would not be transmitted to anyone.
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18.07.2007 3:02, Guest

No fika! eek.gif
That's probably how humans happened! smile.gif
And then - "not muta-a-y ..." tongue.gif

15.08.2007 12:49, fly-km

Dear Santa Claus, where did you find it?" and he doesn't have any offspring? jump.gif tongue.gif

19.08.2007 12:34, Chromocenter

What offspring, this is a worker. It looks like his mid-chest has fallen out... by the way, why not mutauia-defective someone from gap-genes and get this.

19.08.2007 12:45, Guest

Not a bad ant!!!
And once I found a spiniger in Rezenah, so he didn't have the last segments on his front pair of paws.NOT that they were torn off or anything.The end of his legs was rounded.Supposedly not fully developed.But it didn't turn out badly.I'll post a photo later. shuffle.gif cool.gif

19.08.2007 12:48, Шастик

Not a bad ant!!!
And once I found a spiniger in Rezenah, so he didn't have the last segments on his front pair of paws.NOT that they were torn off or anything.The end of his legs was rounded.Supposedly not fully developed.But it didn't turn out badly.I'll post a photo later. shuffle.gif  cool.gif

Sorry, this authorization got to me.My property is higher.

20.08.2007 10:40, fly-km

well okay....maybe there's a whole anthill of them?smile.gif

26.08.2007 13:49, Chromocenter

In my opinion, it is unlikely after all smile.gif
Still, probably their functions are broken somehow.

28.08.2007 11:18, fly-km

non-smoking rooms...but with hotba everything can be passable

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