Highlights•Studies in social bees have proposed various forms of sophisticated
cognition.•Bees display a variety of cognitive phenomena including attention, social learning …

Interest in the advanced cognitive abilities of insects has grown rapidly over the past
decades. However, most studies have taken place on a handful of model organisms: fruit …

Philosophical attention to animals can be found in a wide range of texts throughout the
history of philosophy, including discussions of animal classification in Aristotle and Ibn Bâjja …

Thoroughly updated for its third edition with the latest research in the field, this innovative
text delivers an apt and comprehensive introduction to the rich and complex world of animal …

Ants use debris as tools to collect and transport liquid food to the nest. Previous studies
showed that this behaviour is flexible whereby ants learn to use artificial material that is …

Eusocial insects have evolved diverse particle‐use behaviors. A previous study reported
that red imported fire ants, Solenopsis invicta Buren, deposited soil particles on substances …

Note from the Editors: To help our readers understand why we have decided to include
Doctor Fomomindo's admittedly unusual (and eternally unfinished) catalog (the …

The wax-made comb of the honeybee is a masterpiece of animal architecture. The highly
regular, double-sided hexagonal structure is a near-optimal solution to storing food and …

The small brains of insects and other invertebrates are often thought to constrain these
animals to live entirely 'in the moment'. In this view, each one of their many seemingly hard …

Insects are the most diverse group of organisms in the animal kingdom, and some species
exhibit complex social behaviors. Although research on insect object use is still in its early …