I found this story on Digg, but researchers have found a way that ants keep their society in check. From the article, it says that workers ants which are essentially daughters of the queen have the ability to reproduce if necessary without a male. This happens when a colony loses a queen. During this process, [...]
Wow, what can’t ants teach us. A new study shows some insight into traffic control, and congestion prevention by observing how ants handle congestion. When the ants were forced onto a narrow pathway causing congestion toward a food source, the ants in traffic would push the returning ants off the path so that they create [...]
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