Wooden fences can come with a host of problems, including the appearance of small holes. Here we explore the cause of this issue and whether you should worry.

Chimpanzees used rocks to break open hard-shelled food, sticks to feed on termites and ants ... Hugo van Lawick came upon an abandoned ostrich nest. Two ostrich eggs left in the nest were under ...

Matabele Ants, Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. These ants raid termite nests. Here they are shown carrying their prey back to their own nest. Judy Gallagher, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Ants ...

Did you know ants once shared the planet with dinosaurs like the T-Rex and the Velociraptor? Or that termites cultivate food gardens of fungi within their large, intricately constructed mounds? And ...

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 ...

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

The researchers repeatedly confronted ants with competitors from another nest. The test ants remembered the negative experiences they had during these encounters: when they encountered ants from a ...