Leafcutter ants live in highly organized colonies where every ant has a job, and now researchers can flip those jobs like a switch. By manipulating just two neuropeptides, scientists can turn ...

In eusocial superorganisms like leafcutter ant colonies, labor is divvied up according to body shape and size, but University ...

Animals were once considered mindless—incapable of thoughts or feelings. These views dominated common thought for millennia, ...

While not animals, bristlecone pine trees (Pinus longaeva) deserve honorable mention for their extraordinary aging process that dramatically differs from both humans and most animals. These ancient ...

Eusocial animals usually have overlapping generations within the same colony or group. When Was Eusociality First Observed? Entomologist Suzanne Batra first coined the term “eusocial” in 1966 when she ...

Animals Around The Globe is a travel platform focused on wildlife and unique destinations, where you can discover all your favourite animal encounters. ... insects’ social organizations—particularly ...

They’re also an example of eusocial animals so highly organized that the entire society functions like a single superorganism, where groups of individuals function more like different systems in ...

Tahrs aren’t the only animals that enjoy grooming each other. Social grooming, or allogrooming, has been observed in many mammals, birds, and even insects. For many animals, social grooming is ...

These surprisingly social animals—dolphins, elephants, crows, naked mole rats, and orcas—form strong community bonds. ANIMALS 5 WILD ANIMALS THAT ARE SURPRISINGLY SOCIAL ...

Eusocial insects like ants, termites, and bees spring into action in the presence of the dead. ... Many animal responses to death are not so easily categorized, described, ...

Back in the early 1860s, just a few years after he first published On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin came up with a hypothesis about Angraecum sesquipedale, otherwise known as the Star-of ...

When you think about it, the “N” animal kingdom is just a small portion of the millions and millions of animals that call Earth home. To learn more about this group, check out our roundup, below. We ...