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There are 20 quadrillion ants on Earth —that’s 2.5 million ants for every human. Known ant species (members of the family ...

Animal communication is a key innovation that allows a species to find resources, perceive danger and respond to it as a group. When these interactions scale up into complexity they start to define ...

Unlike humans, ants do not have voices, but they somehow communicate throughout the day. They communicate with one another about where food is, when danger is approaching, and how to cooperate. Their ...

(CN) — For creatures as tiny and generally defenseless as ants, communication between members of a colony is essential for survival. It has long been known that ants use pheromones to communicate, but ...

Ted Schultz, research entomologist at Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, describes how ants use their incredible sense of smell along with their ability to produce pheromones to ...

As social insects, ants are particularly dependent on optimizing their communication in order to ward off enemies and to recognize individuals from their own colony. They must also protect themselves ...

An international team of researchers headed by biologist Lukas Schrader from Münster University show that a socially parasitic lifestyle of ants not only leads to a change in external traits, but also ...