A long-term study of a population of desert seed-eating ant colonies of the red harvester ant,
Pogonomyrmex barbatus, in New Mexico, USA, shows that a colony can live for 20–30 years …

The paper is devoted to analyzing consistent individual differences in behavior, also known
as “personalities,” in the context of a vital ant task—the detection and transportation of food. I …

In this paper, we introduce an active inference model of ant colony foraging behavior, and
implement the model in a series of in silico experiments. Active inference is a multiscale …

Spatial patterns of movement regulate many aspects of social insect behavior, because how
workers move around, and how many are there, determines how often they meet and …

Behavioural variation is essential for animals to adapt to different social and environmental
conditions. The Kinship Theory of Intragenomic Conflict (KTIC) predicts that parent‐specific …

Changing climatic conditions are sha** how density mediates resource competition.
Colonies of the seed‐eating red harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex barbatus, live for about 30 …

Gastropod mollusks are known for their large, individually identifiable neurons, which are
amenable to long-term intracellular recordings that can be repeated from animal to animal …

Highlights•Social organization is considered to impact brain evolution, but defining its
specific role can be challenging.•Predictions about brain size and structure vary across …

Concerted developmental programming may constrain changes in component structures of
the brain, thus limiting the ability of selection to form an adaptive mosaic of size‐variable …

Collective behavioural plasticity allows ant colonies to adjust to changing conditions. The
red harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus), a desert seed-eating species, regulates …