Interestingly, the opposite non-additive patterns emerged at sites dominated by other ants.

Like other ants, they are very fastidious about removing their dead companions.

She is carrying home that stick to build for other ants' children.

Still, while larger than other ants, they weren't all that big.

For three months, however, she was carefully fed and tended by the other ants.

And instead of merely struggling with Nature for it, they also fight other ants.

Do you think that the greedy ant told the other ants about the jar?

When the third ant spoke thus the other ants looked at each other and laughed.

The message is clear: other ants have been here recently, ants belonging to an unknown colony.

While looking for other ants, he noticed an odd specimen wandering in leaf litter at dusk.

Then perhaps he told the other ants.

Frank-lin thought that ants have some way of telling other ants that there is work to do.

Although so small a species, it is very courageous, and I have seen it ferociously attack other ants.

When an insect lands, the ants seize its legs, holding it down until other ants dismember the pinioned prey.

Sick ants self-isolate, and healthy ants reduce their interaction with other ants when disease is present in the colony.

Another species (the Eciton legionis) has been known to attack other ants' nests for the sake of plunder.