In this issue, the students will design a hypothetical experiment to measure the effect of birds on army ant foraging success, interpret the results of a real experiment, and consider the consequences ...

For centuries we have believed that humans were unique in our ability to farm and cultivate our own food. However, it turns ...

After playing Empire of the Ants, you earn the right to say you’ve felt what it’s like to be an ant. The game is simply that ...

Army ants, with their large mandibles and painful ... which some experts believe constitutes a colony “memory.” This kind of communal knowledge is essential for defense, so ants can easily ...

Narrator: At first glance, a fire ant hill — or mound, as it's properly called — looks impossibly small. And yet, a colony of up to 250,000 ants call it home. But here's the secret ...

Plus, the queens and their offspring have been living in large, highly organized, cooperative societies—practicing activities from strategic army warfare ... organism an ant colony amounts ...