Ants remember their encounters with individuals from another nest and treat every member of that nest accordingly. Although this demonstrates remarkable capacity given their tiny brains, it may also ...

Further analysis showed ants were more hostile towards ants that smelled of past bad encounters with other nests. When they ...

Instead of vinegar, you can also use lemon juice for the same effect. Image Credit: Aldshakya, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. If you know where the nearest ant nest is located outside of your ...

Ants learn from past encounters, showing more aggression toward familiar aggressive rivals and less toward passive ones. This ...

Freiburg researchers reveal that ants learn from experience, remembering and responding aggressively to familiar rivals.

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 ...

Ants learn from past encounters, recognizing aggressive rivals and adapting their behavior to respond more appropriately in ...