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James is a home improvement freelance writer with over a decade of experience in a variety of trades. He has worked as a ranch hand, construction carpenter, tree climber, maintenance technician, and ...

Ants don't get distracted by social information when on the move, and only fully responding to it when at rest, a new study indicates. Such sporadic monitoring of the social environment may reduce ...

When the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia last week presented its Leidy Medal to Dr. William Morton Wheeler, internationally famed zoologist, longtime Dean of the Bussey Institution for ...

Kendrick Nakamura has 43 pets. Two are rabbits, one is a cat, and all the others are freshly caught queen ants he hopes will start their own colonies. In a matter of months, he’ll likely have hundreds ...

Communication provides the basis for social life. In ant colonies, the prevalence of local, often chemically mediated, interactions introduces strong links between communication networks and the ...