Hacker News with Generative AI: Ants

Ants learned to farm fungi during a mass extinction (arstechnica.com)
Ants learned to work with fungi back in a world where only fungi could thrive.
Ants, Fungi, Evolution, Mass Extinction, Science
221 points by LinuxBender 49 days ago | 63 comments
The Simple Algorithm That Ants Use to Build Bridges (2018) (quantamagazine.org)
Nature, Ants, Algorithms, Biology
120 points by silverkite 89 days ago | 37 comments
Wing-slapping: A defensive behavior by honey bees against ants (wiley.com)
Honey Bees, Ants, Defensive Behavior, Animal Behavior, Biology
43 points by rntn 126 days ago | 10 comments
Ants can carry out life-saving amputations on injured nest mates, study shows (theguardian.com)
Ants, Biology, Animal Behavior, Science, Research
216 points by hackernj 142 days ago | 67 comments