Ants: Both Solid-like and Liquid-like, ants act like ketchup when forces applied

“Ants seem to have an on/off switch in that they let go for sufficiently large applied forces,”“This is the hallmark of viscoelastic behavior.“The ants exhibit a springy-response when probed at short times, but behave fluid-like at longer times.”
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