In this review, we journey with Diacamma indicum a Ponerine ant over the past decade as
they relocate to new nests and discover the challenges they face along the way and how …

Associative learning is of great importance to animals, as it enhances their ability to
navigate, forage, evade predation and improve fitness. Even though associative learning …

Tandem running is a primitive recruitment method employed by many ant genera. This study
characterizes this behaviour during the recruitment of colony mates to a new nest in an …

Introduction The cognitive abilities of animals play a crucial role in their capacity to adapt to
changing environments. Experiments to understand cognition are usually performed on …

In addition to foraging individually several species of ants guide nestmates to a goal by
tandem running. We found that the Australian ant, Camponotus consobrinus, forages both …

In many social hymenopterans, workers of different ages engage in different tasks; younger
workers remain inside the nest as intranidal workers, while older workers go outside the nest …

Recruitment is a fundamental feature of animal societies and its efficiency largely depends
on within-group communication. Insect societies are often populous and decentralised …

The ponerine queenless ant genus Diacamma has attracted attention for its unique mode of
reproductive differentiation through mutilation of the thoracic appendage, gemma, after …

Theft of resources is ubiquitous in the animal kingdom. An evolutionary arms race between
thieves and their victims is expected. Although several studies have documented inter-and …

The phenomenon of minimizing the path length to a target site in order to increase transport
efficiency is described as path optimization, and it has been observed in many mammals …