How do ants guide each other?

After two years of research on ant species, two professors Nigel Franks and Tom Richardson at Bristol University (UK) have discovered evidence of how to guide and teach each other in the world of small animals. this baby.

Accordingly, to guide and teach each other how to find bait, ants have applied tail-running techniques - that is, this ant instructs others to crawl from their drive to where there is food. The first ants will crawl slowly if the latter are too far away and they will gradually speed up if the distance between them is too short.

The information of the path is spread throughout the ant colonies when the following ones become the leading 'leader' and the instruction process, the instruction begins again for both ant colonies. Professor Nigel Franks said: 'Teaching and teaching only in ants is not merely imitation. Although ants are animals that have smaller brains than those of millions of people, they are very good at 'teaching and learning'.

NGUYEN SINH