Unlike the egg-headed, opposing-thumbed humans, ants don’t enjoy solitude. Ants are highly social animals who cannot survive without their community. When an ant gets lonely, it loses its vigor.

There are only two animals capable of transporting an object so large that it can only be moved by cooperating: humans and ants. And not every species in the Formicidae family is capable of such a ...

Ants and humans are also the only creatures in nature ... pros and cons of cooperation versus going it alone. To enable a comparison between two such disparate species, the research team led ...

Ants and humans share a unique ability to cooperate to carry loads much larger than themselves. A recent study compared their efficiency in navigating a maze with a load, revealing surprising results ...

Ants acted together in calculated and strategic manner, exhibiting collective memory that helped them persist in particular direction of motion and avoid repeated mistakes ...

To make a meaningful comparison, the researchers designed ... When working alone, humans outperformed ants by a wide margin, using strategic planning to complete the task efficiently.

The humans, scientifically known as Homo sapiens, competed against black ants, scientifically known ... To make the comparison as meaningful as possible, some (though not all) of the human groups ...

Humans, on the contrary, failed to significantly improve their performance when acting in groups, said researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

When these results were compared with those of ants, the group with no communication was slower than the group of ants. The reason why humans were slower than ants was because they used a special ...