Open wounds are a major health risk in animals, with species prone to injuries likely developing
means to reduce these risks. We therefore analysed the behavioural response towards …

Infected wounds pose a major mortality risk in animals. Injuries are common in the ant
Megaponera analis, which raids pugnacious prey. Here we show that M. analis can determine …

The gut microbiota influences animal neurodevelopment and behaviour but has not previously
been documented to affect group-level properties of social organisms. Here, we use …

Rescue behavior focused on injured individuals has rarely been observed in animals. These
observations though are from very different taxa's: birds, mammals and social insects. Here …

In social groups, infection risk is not distributed evenly across individuals. Individual behaviour
is a key source of variation in infection risk, yet its effects are difficult to separate from …

Collective decision making is one of the main mechanisms of organization in social insects.
However, individual decision making can also play an important role, depending on the type …

Ants communicate via an arsenal of different pheromones produced in a variety of exocrine
glands. For example, ants release alarm pheromones in response to danger to alert their …

Division of labor is one of the main reasons for the success of social insects. Worker
polymorphism, age polyethism and work division in more primitive ants, such as the ponerines, …

Trail network systems among ants have received a lot of scientific attention because of their
various applications in problem solving of networks. Recent studies have shown that ants …

The Comoé National Park (CNP), located in the north-eastern part of the Ivory Coast, is
strongly influenced by the river Comoé, which is eponymous for the park. Gallery forests along …