by Lucas Dunst | Oct 28, 2021 | Foraging, Social behavior
Eciton burchellii is a species of nomadic army ant, native to tropical rainforest biomes throughout Central and South america. Every few weeks, these ants travel to a new temporary nesting site, called a bivouac. To gather food, army ants engage in massive swarm...
by Ubongabasi Asuquo | Oct 28, 2021 | Sensory systems
You take a nature walk in Western New Mexico during the spring season and you notice several large, black yellow insects with shiny abdomens drilling through a piece of dead wood. Your bee radar is triggered and you identify them as valley carpenter bees! Now, you may...
by Selam Habtemariam | Oct 26, 2021 | Communication, Learning, Social behavior
From rumbles and roars, to barks and trumpets, elephants are quite the vocally expressive animals with complex vocal learning capabilities. Like humans, elephants are constantly communicating to each other using sophisticated communication networks, intricate vocal...
by Jada Swearingen | Oct 26, 2021 | Social behavior
If you’re ever at a zoo and you happen to spot a wild cat with enormous ears and super long legs that make it look like it’s walking on stilts, then you’re probably looking at a serval. The Leptailurus Serval is a wild cat from the sub-Saharan region of...
by Omar Morosse | Oct 26, 2021 | Aggression, Social behavior
Crustaceans are much more than they seem on the dinner plate or in the boiling pot. In fact, they serve the biological world in many roles. One of these is as an indicator species: those organisms that, based on their abundance, or lack thereof, help confer the...
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