Prepare to be amazed as we explore how ants actually teach each other by leading and following ... it involves one individual actively helping another to learn something new.

Some ants protect aphids from other ... try to help. They may use their trunks to lift or comfort the injured one. Elephants are known for strong social bonds and don’t easily leave each other ...

The painstaking efforts adopted by ants to care for each others’ wounds illustrates how social insects reap benefits from behaving altruistically, said Keller. “By helping each other ...

Ants, with their highly organized social behavior ... could use advanced communication technologies to communicate with each other and with the road infrastructure management.

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Even neighboring nests that are physically close to each other, like in adjacent flower ... decimating native ants that normally help disperse seeds. Ants can have ripple effects through ...

These amputations are considered altruistic behavior because the ants have to expend time and energy to help others, Keller said. “The fact that the ants are able to diagnose a wound ...