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BBC Nature - Ants remember their enemy's scent

Victoria Gill, reporting for BBC Nature:

Ant colonies - one of nature’s most ancient and efficient societies - are able to form a “collective memory” of their enemies, say scientists.

When one ant fights with an intruder from another colony it retains that enemy’s odour: passing it on to the rest of the colony.

Ants fascinate me.

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