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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/pdfplus/10.2307/1536521
Gigantiops maze experiment: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00359-016-1075-2
Myrmecia & Harpegnathos jumps: https://asu.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/the-ants-that-jump-different-techniques-to-take-off
Odontomachus trap-jaw jumps: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1890/1540-9295-13.10.574
Odontomachus jumping video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOQgvlAakh4
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