Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony Behavior

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Numerical competence in animals, with an insight from ants (2011, background): “…robins (Petroica australis) uses numerical judgements when retrieving and pilfering cashed food (Hunt et al., 2008), and ants of several species are able to estimate quite precisely numbers of encounters with members of other colonies on their feeding territories (Reznikova, 1999; Gordon, 2010 ).”