What's the Deal With Staples?

There were staples before they were what we think of as modern mechanical staplers. In 18 95, an american guy called robert loud ho goes off on a hunting trip in the woods of maine, new england. He strips some elm bark from a tree, nd he collects a handful of angry ants. So he holds up the first of the livid ants to the wound, and it sinks its mandibles into the wound,. Its jaws, one on either side of the wound, acting like a crude staple. And then the guide gets the body of the ant, and he twists the body round, so he decapitates it. You've got an ant