A team of evolutionary biologists has demonstrated that ants learn from experience. Led by Dr. Volker Nehring, research associate in the Evolutionary Biology and Animal Ecology group at the University of Freiburg, and doctoral student Mélanie Bey, the team repeatedly confronted ants with competitors from another nest. The test ants remembered the negative experiences they had during these encounters.

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Ants hold grudges, study suggests

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.

Im Leben eines Insektenvolkes ist vieles vorbestimmt. Da erstaunt eine Studie, die zeigt: Ameisen merken sich, mit wem sie Ärger hatten. Sie lernen also aus Erfahrung.

Biologie: Ameisen sind nachtragend

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Biology: Ants are vindictive

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…

Solo hay dos tipos de animales capaces de transportar un objeto tan grande que solo pueden lograrlo cooperando y yendo a una: los humanos y las hormigas. Y no todas las 15.000 especies de formícidos saben hacer algo así. Apenas el 1% son capaces de trabajar en equipo como para lograr sacar un trozo en forma de T a través de dos estrechas puertas muy juntas. El experimento es propio de la informática y la inteligencia artificial, pero un grupo de…

La inteligencia colectiva de las hormigas supera a la de los humanos

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The collective intelligence of ants surpasses that of humans

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Evolutionary biologists are investigating the extent to which ants learn from past experiences. After being attacked by ants from a particular nest, ants behave more aggressively towards others from that same nest.

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Daniel Hogan

United States

Evolutionary biology: Ants can hold a grudge

It’s not just humans who have trouble making amends—Earth’s 20 quadrillion ants aren’t quick to forgive, either. Ants primarily rely on their fine-tuned olfactory sense to differentiate between the smell of members of their own family (i.e. safe ants) and ants from other colonies. A familiar scent while out foraging, for example, allows a worker ant to know which nearby ants are there to help, and which may be rivals hunting for the same resourc…

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Even ants may hold grudges

Antman doesn’t seem like such an unscary superhero now, huh?

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Don't Cross Ants – They Remember Their Enemies And Hold Grudges

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 formicide.

Solo hay dos tipos de animales capaces de transportar un objeto tan grande que solo pueden lograrlo cooperando y yendo a una: los humanos y las hormigas. Y no todas las 15.000 especies de formícid

Humanos contra hormigas, el experimento del laberinto

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Humans Against Ants, The Maze Experiment

A study conducted by the Weizmann Institute of Sciences in Israel, led by Ofer Feinerman, found that ants outnumber people when working in groups to solve complex tasks, such as moving large objects through a maze. Although humans have better cognitive skills individually, through a test that recreated the so-called “piano mover problem,” it was shown that humans worked better individually, but the ants did better collectively. It is a classic c…

Un estudio realizado por el Instituto Weizmann de Ciencias en Israel, liderado por Ofer Feinerman descubrió que las hormigas superan a las personas cuando trabajan en grupo para resolver tareas complejas, como mover objetos grandes a través de un laberinto.  Si bien los humanos tienen mejores habilidades cognitivas de forma individual, a través de una prueba que recreó el llamado “problema de los movedores de piano”, se demostró que los humanos …

Un estudio israelí confirma que las hormigas superan a los humanos en inteligencia grupal

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An Israeli study confirms that ants outperform humans in group intelligence

Study shows ants remember aggressive rivals and adjust behavior, revealing learning and memory in insect conflict encounters.

Ants Exhibit Memory-Based Aggression Towards Rivals

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