Ants are central-place foragers: they always return to the nest, and this requires the ability to
remember relationships between features of the environment, or an individual's path through …

In this review, we journey with Diacamma indicum a Ponerine ant over the past decade as
they relocate to new nests and discover the challenges they face along the way and how …

Ant foragers make use of multiple navigational cues to navigate through the world and the
combination of innate navigational strategies and the learning of environmental information …

Abstract The Green Weaver ants, Oecophylla smaragdina are iconic animals known for their
extreme cooperative behaviour where they bridge gaps by linking to each other to build …

Tandem running is a primitive recruitment method employed by many ant genera. This study
characterizes this behaviour during the recruitment of colony mates to a new nest in an …

Social insect colonies exploit food sources that vary in their profitability and riskiness. One
factor that affects both profitability and riskiness is the foraging distance: more distant …

Tandem running is a common recruitment strategy in ant species with small colony sizes.
During a tandem run, an informed leader guides a usually naïve nestmate to a food source …

Ants are unusual among insects in that individuals of the same species within a single
colony have different modes of locomotion and tasks. We know from walking ants that vision …

Ants show collective and individual behavioral flexibility in their response to immediate
context, choosing for example between different foraging strategies. In Pachycondyla striata …

In order to investigate the effect of the distance between two exits on ant evacuation
efficiency and the behavior of ants escaping from a two-exit room, we conducted ant egress …