Ant colony responds to predation simulation as a 'superorganism' Ants retreat when scout removed from colony edge, flee when worker removed from nest center Date: November 11, 2015 Source: PLOS ...

The final game will feature several ant species, a colony management system, as well as digging, building, harvesting and resource gathering.

The problem with games still daring to use the world "simulator" in the title (ones that don't come out of Germany riding various kinds of tractor, anyway) is the word now has a set of definitions ...

Once the signal is in the air, any ant that happens by grabs the corpse and carries it through the colony to a refuse pile designated the graveyard and dumps it on a mound of also-dead ants.

Ants may respond to disturbances in their nest as one highly organized 'superorganism', according to a study published Nov. 11, 2015, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Thomas O'Shea-Wheller ...