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Emergent division of labor among clonal ants

What are the benefits of living in society? Sociality has long been proposed to be beneficial because groups can divide labor among individuals to increase their efficiency. Some of the most sophisticated forms of division of labor are found in social insects, such as honeybees,... click to read more

Yuko Ulrich | Junior Group Leader at The Rockefeller University, NY, USA & University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

Daniel J. C. Kronauer | Associate Professor at The Rockefeller University, NY, USA

Christopher K. Tokita | PhD candidate at Princeton University, NJ, USA

ants

division of labor

automated behavioral tracking

Reading time 4 min

published on Mar 11, 2019

Saving the injured: The value of rescued veterans in a predatory ant species

In general, we imagine ants as little pieces of something bigger, with the value of the individual being marginal, even sacrificing themselves if necessary for the good of the colony. Matabele ants (Megaponera analis) are a specialized termite predator of sub-Saharan Africa. In the early... click to read more

Erik Frank | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Lausanne Biophore Department of Ecology and Evolution CH - 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

behaviour

Matabele ants

ants

community

veterans

Reading time 3 min

published on Sep 25, 2017