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Trap-Jaw Ant (w/ videos)

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The trap-jaw ant, Odontomachus bauri, closes its mandibles at 35 to 64 meters per second (78 to 145 miles per hour), the fastest predatory strike in the animal kingdom. [...] After biting into an intruder, the force of its mandibles springs the ant straight backward up to 39.6 centimeters, with an acceleration equal to 100,000 times the force of gravity.