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Samuel Lymbery, Postdoctoral Fellow in Biosecurity, Murdoch University

A battlefield for ants? New study on ant warfare shows we could manipulate their fights

Bruce Webber, CC BY-SA

Humans are not the only animals that go to war. Ants do so too, and on a similarly catastrophic scale.

Battles play out daily – in human conflicts, among animals in nature, and across the virtual worlds of video games. How these battles progress depends on the combatants involved and what their battlefields are like.

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