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I noticed the stick insect because it was struggling across the forest floor, but it took a few beats before I saw the ant that had it handcuffed. Eventually the stick insect stopped moving and the ant begand to crawl up its right front leg. At the time I thought the ant severed the leg, but now that I'm looking at my photos I suspect the stick insect actually abandoned the leg to make its escape. It's amazing to me that one ant poses such a threat to an insect so much bigger than it, but it's equally amazing that the stick insect seemed to wait until the ant was only grasping one leg to make its getaway, like it made the calculation that it wasn't leaving with both forelegs but that one would be better than none.