The tiny brown clone walks alone, far away from its brethren. Its solitary path takes it round and round the edge of the small plastic dish as it completely ignores its siblings. Receive emails about ...

Two weeks ago, Brooke Borel witnessed a modern wonder in Brooklyn. She gaped, transfixed as a group of ants hauled a piece of dog food up a vertical wall. How did they not only have the brute strength ...

The Ecology of Collective Behavior Deborah M. Gordon Princeton Univ. Press(2023) Collective behaviours are present throughout nature — from groups of genes being activated simultaneously to shoals of ...

A team of Swiss researchers with bugs on the brain has created an army of simple robotic "ants" capable of some impressive feats. The takeaway from these 10 gram bots, which are inexpensive to make ...

Florida carpenter ants (Camponotus floridanus) selectively treat the wounded limbs of their fellow ants, according to a new paper published in the journal Current Biology. Depending on the location of ...

At the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, a wildlife preserve in central Kenya, lions and cheetahs mingle with zebras and elephants across many miles of savannah – grasslands with "whistling thorn" acacia trees ...