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A study shows that a lack of workers prompts colony leaders to take on caregiver roles for the offspring

Scientists are working to understand the matriarchs, who can survive decades while investing huge amounts of energy into reproduction

Scientists are working to understand the matriarchs, who can survive decades while investing huge amounts of energy into reproduction

URL copied Image Source : INSTAGRAM/MATHEN13 Social isolation behaviour in ants is similar to that of humans and other social mammals: Study  COVID-19 pandemic has not only isolated humans from their loved ones but also the ants. Yes! A recent study by an Israeli-German research team has revealed that ants react to social isolation similar to humans and other social mammals. The findings of the recent study by researchers at Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Ma...

Credit: photo/©: Susanne Foitzik, JGU Ants react to social isolation in a similar way as do humans and other social mammals. A study by an Israeli-German research team has revealed alterations to the social and hygienic behavior of ants that had been isolated from their group. The research team was particularly surprised by the fact that immune and stress genes were downregulated in the brains of the isolated ants. "This makes the immune system less efficient, a phenomenon that is also apparen...