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 ...

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 ...

Just like human societies, ant societies have a division of labor. Within a colony, some individuals feed the young while others are soldiers who protect the colony from intruders. New research ...