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When ants get together, they make collective decisions a bit like networks of neurons in a brain, according to new research.
In a similar manner to how neural computations result in decisions; colonies make decisions to leave rising temperatures.
Temperatures are rising, and one colony of ants will soon have to make a collective decision. Each ant feels the rising heat beneath its feet but carries along as usual until, suddenly, the ants reverse course.
When facing rising temperatures, colonies collectively evacuate the nest when the ground becomes too warm, It is almost as if the colony of ants has a greater, collective mind.