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Trap-jaw ant strike vs freely-swinging, compliant target
A suspended trap-jaw ant striking a freely-swinging, compliant target filmed at 3000 fps.

Pendulum-based measurements reveal impact dynamics at the scale of a trap-jaw ant

Justin F. Jorge, Sarah Bergbreiter, and S. N. Patek

Journal of Experimental Biology 2021. 224:None-None; doi: 10.1242/jeb.232157