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 ...

P.G. Ants are known for their coordinated actions and collective cognition. To compare ants’ collective cognition with human cognition, Tabea Dreyer et al. challenged individuals or groups of humans ...

Prof. Ofer Feinerman, who led the research team, said the study showed humans’ cognitive abilities gave them an edge over ants when working individually. However, when ants joined forces and ...

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

A groundbreaking study reveals that ants outperform humans when navigating a maze with a heavy load, suggesting that ants possess superior group strategies and collective memory. Conducted by the ...

New Delhi, Jan 5 (PTI) A group of ants fared better than humans when confronted with a task of manoeuvring large loads through a maze, displaying strategy and collective memory that helped them ...

A group of ants fared better than humans when confronted with a task of manoeuvring large loads through a maze, displaying strategy and collective memory that helped them persist and avoid mistakes, a ...

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

Ants and humans competed in navigating a maze with a large load. While humans outperformed individually, ant groups excelled collectively, showing strategic coordination and persistence. The study ...

Participants were tasked with moving a large T-shaped object The researchers designed two sets of mazes to accommodate both ants and humans The ants used were Paratrechina longicornis, commonly known ...