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Along the tributaries of the Amazon in Brazil, home to the most aggressive and dangerous form of ants in the world – Paraponera clavata, or as they are called, because of the similarity of pain from their bites with gunshot wounds, bullet ants …

Some of the local Native American tribes practice a terrible habit: every boy, ready to become a man, should stick his hands for 10 minutes into ritual “mittens”, ridden by these monsters. Often, this leads to temporary paralysis or even to blackening of the fingers.

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