Ant Interactions (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Ant Interactions

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The study found that time is a crucial but often neglected factor in studying interactions between individuals. Blonder said: "We could imagine that if the yellow ant passed food on to the red ant which could later give it to the blue ant. However, the blue ant has no option of giving anything to the yellow ant because that would require moving backwards in time."

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Dornhaus lab

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