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| Tango01 | 21 Feb 2020 9:46 p.m. PST |
…regulates aggression, acceptance "For most social animals, even humans, the ability to distinguish friend versus foe can be a challenge that often can lead to knee-jerk aggression. But when it comes to ants getting aggressive, there's a more sophisticated method to their madness. In a new study, published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, scientists in the Department of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt report definitive evidence of a specific mechanism within ants that is responsible for unlocking aggressive behaviors toward other ants. The research—the first to pinpoint this mechanism and its precise role in ant biology—reports a social characteristic that could help account for their evolutionary success…"
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