As such, it follows that worker ants could have larger brains compared to their body size ... evolutionarily speaking. “Colony-dwelling animals potentially provide a unique window on how brains and ...

Compared with other animals "we have quite a small body ... told Live Science. For example, ants have relatively small brains compared with other hymenoptera, a class that includes bees, wasps ...

The zoo’s smallest animal is a leaf cutter ant, at about 5 milligrams. Zookeepers do not measure each ant individually, but use estimates based on the weight of an entire colony. “We can tell ...