Anyone who has dealt with ants in the kitchen knows that ants are highly social creatures; it's rare to see one alone. Humans are social creatures too, even if some of us enjoy solitude.
A group of ants fared better than humans when confronted with a task of manoeuvring large loads through a maze, displaying strategy and collective memory that helped them persist and avoid mistakes, a ...
Or are we? In a surprising new study, researchers compared the cooperative abilities of ants and humans using a geometric challenge known as the “piano-movers”. This task involved navigating a ...
New Delhi: A group of ants fared better than humans when confronted with a task of manoeuvring large loads through a maze, displaying strategy and collective memory that helped them persist and avoid ...
While one would be hard-pressed to find virtually any similarities between ants and humans, the two species seem to share an unusual ability despite their seemingly unbridgeable differences—they ...
A team studying the group behavior of ants has found that, in the right circumstances, ants can outsmart humans in collective problem-solving tasks. Researchers from the Weizmann Institute of ...