Deadly battles play out several times a day in the Ivory Coast’s Comoé National Park, leaving wounded behind. The fights break out when hundreds of African Matabele ants march off to raid a nearby ...

African Matabele ants are fighters — several times a day, they leave their nests on raids, battling termite soldiers and dragging termite workers home for dinner. They drag their fallen comrades back, ...

Some ants have figured out how to keep from getting lost: Build taller anthills. Desert ants that live in the hot, flat salt pans of Tunisia spend their days looking for food. Successful grocery runs ...

The desert ant Cataglyphis fortis inhabits the North African saltpans where it individually forages for dead arthropods. Homing ants rely mainly on path integration, i.e., the processing of ...

A study finds that the North African ant species Cataglyphis fortis can learn and retain up to 14 food-associated odors. Returning from foraging runs, desert ants switch from skylight compass ...

A man has shared the moment thousands of ants used their own bodies to create a massive rope-like bridge hanging from the edge of a rooftop to a nearby wasp nest. So far the video has been viewed more ...

A Matabele ant treats the wounds of a mate whose limbs were bitten off during a fight with termite soldiers. African Matabele ants are fighters — several times a day, they leave their nests on raids, ...