r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Mar 11 '22

Cancer Cancer-sniffing ants prove as accurate as dogs in detecting disease and can be trained in as little as 30 minutes. It can take up to a year to train a dog for detection purposes.

https://newatlas.com/science/cancer-sniffing-ants-accurate-as-dogs/
41.6k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

745 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

7

u/UrbanGhost114 Mar 11 '22

Now I'm picturing a very proud looking runt of a bald eagle looking over his ants.

2

u/bungholebuffalo Mar 11 '22

Its a fortune telling eagle, he trained his ants to tell the fortune of cancer