Biology, Botany and Zoology

What Do Ants Know That We Don’t?

07-06-2013 • http://www.wired.com, By Deborah Gordon

Ever notice how ant colonies so successfully explore and exploit resources in the world … to find food at 4th of July picnics, for example? You may find it annoying. But as an ecologist who studies ants and collective behavior, I think it’s intriguin