An ant biologist and a computer scientist has revealed that the behavior of harvester ants as they forage for food mirrors the protocols that control traffic on the Internet. On the surface, ants and ...

As heat stress, drought and shifting forage quality reshape cattle nutrition, mineral programs should be adjusted before ...

Honey bee colonies exemplify one of the most sophisticated systems of collective resource acquisition in the animal kingdom. Individual foragers scout for food, evaluate its quality and location, and ...

Fish species respond to temperature increases by going after more readily available prey. Models suggest this behavior could lead to more extinctions. Fish are changing how they search for and consume ...

Pollen constitutes a vital nutritional resource for bees, supplying proteins, lipids and micronutrients essential for brood rearing and colony maintenance. The ecology of pollen encompasses its ...

Valentin Dragoi professor of electrical and computer engineering at Rice University, professor of neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College and scientific director of the Methodist/Rice Center for ...

Finding food and staying at a food source are crucial survival strategies in the animal world. But how are external feeding signals on the molecular, cellular and neuronal circuit level transformed ...

Researchers used miniature robots to mimic how real ants maneuver networks of their own. Credit: Simon Garnier, et al For ants, the pheromone-laden foraging trails they leave behind are like lifelines ...

Genetics control behavioral sequences that are building blocks for complex behavior patterns. Mice scurry around while foraging for food, but genetics may be the unseen hand controlling these ...

Like physical traits, behavioral traits have a heritable component, and personalities may resemble one parent’s more than the other. New research in mice finds that specific complex behaviors in these ...