Ants learn from past encounters, showing more aggression toward familiar aggressive rivals and less toward passive ones. This ...

Children and scientists discover how wasps trick ants into protecting their larvae, changing our understanding of nature's ...

Ants learn from past encounters, recognizing aggressive rivals and adapting their behavior to respond more appropriately in ...

Evolutionary biologists are investigating the extent to which ants learn from past experiences. After being attacked by ants from a particular nest, ants behave more aggressively towards others from ...

Uncover the surprising world of ant behavior and memory. Discover how tiny ant brains can hold lasting grudges against rival colonies.

Further analysis showed ants were more hostile towards ants that smelled of past bad encounters with other nests. When they ...

Sugar ants invade your home while looking for something sweet to devour in your kitchen. Although these unwanted pests are a ...

Beavers use wood, mud, and plants to build lodges and dams for protection. Build tall mounds with elaborate tunnels and ...

These hardworking creatures are known to build intricate underground colonies. A typical colony contains an egg-laying queen ...

While one would be hard-pressed to find virtually any similarities between ants and humans, the two species seem to share an unusual ability despite their seemingly unbridgeable differences—they ...

Ants, on the other hand, are far from competitive. They joined because they were misled into thinking that the heavy load was ...