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Ants Exhibit Memory-Based Aggression Towards Rivals

  • New research from evolutionary biologists at Germany's University of Freiburg shows that ants retain knowledge of hostile encounters with neighboring enemies and act accordingly.
  • The study published in Current Biology indicates that ants behave more aggressively towards those that smell of past negative encounters and more calmly towards passive ants.
  • Research associate Volker Nehring stated that the study provides evidence that ants learn from their experiences and can hold a grudge.
  • The scientists conducted experiments in two phases to determine how ants remember bad experiences, leading to variations in aggression based on past encounters.
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Much is predetermined in the life of an insect colony. This is why a study is surprising: Ants remember who they had trouble with. In other words, they learn from experience.

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There are only two types of animals capable of transporting an object so large that they can only succeed in cooperating and going to one: humans and ants. And not all 15,000 species of formicides know how to do something like this. Only 1% are able to work as a team to get a piece of T-shaped through two narrow doors very close together. The experiment is typical of computer science and artificial intelligence, but a group of entomologists have…

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