Ant executions serve a higher purpose, research shows

Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 12:01 in Biology & Nature

Daniel Kronauer and his colleagues at Paris University have found that when Cerapachys biroi ants execute their fellow colony-members for laying eggs when they shouldn't, it's not because of a fight for reproductive dominance, as some had thought. More »

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