An 8-year-old’s casual backyard observation has transformed our understanding of an intricate relationship between ants, ...

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

Ants are common insects, but they have some unique capabilities—including their legendary communication skills that allow their colonies to function as superorganisms. Invasive ant species are ...

Freiburg researchers reveal that ants learn from experience, remembering and responding aggressively to familiar rivals.

Ants and other small wanderers which stumble into these pits, slide in the sand and are at once grasped and sucked. Demons of the Dust: a Study in Insect Behaviour.

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 ...