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RE: Some species of ants and termites perform suicidal altruism where they explode to protect the rest of the colony from an intruder
This defense mechanism and suicide for the sake of protection of others is very different and new for me.
Well, it's a pretty rare mechanism, so it's no wonder that it's new to you ;) Very few animals got anything like this in their arsenal of defense mechanisms!