Does ants feel pain when they fall from heights. I saw an ants fell from second floor and she started walking like nothing happened. Now I am curious about this.
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There are two sources of injury from falling: the impact from the fall, and what happens to your body when one part of it stops while the rest still has lots of kinetic energy left to shed.
In other words, let’s say you fall from a height of 10 meters and land on your feet. You might break your heels on impact, but now your feet have stopped moving but your upper legs, torso, arms, and head are still coming down. If they’ve got enough kinetic energy, you can break bones in your legs or suffer spinal damage. Your internal organs can be bruised or ruptured as their own weight along with the weight of any organs above them bears down and applies pressure to them.
Ants don’t have heavy bodies that compress and fail under their own weight in a fall. And as others have mentioned, they don’t fall fast enough for the impact itself to be a concern.
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