Ants carry honey with sponges



Ants are able to quickly choose the best tool for transporting honey. 

If the bugs get access to small sponges or pieces of paper, they will use these objects to suck honey and transport it to their nest. That reports the  Hungarian researchers in the journal Animal Behaviour.

The behavior of the ants is special, because sponges and paper do not exist in the natural environment of the insects. When laboratory research at the University of Szeged ants were faced with platters of honey and water. Besides the dishes were different objects with which the insects were carrying liquids to their nests, such as wood, paper and sponge. 

The insects tended to rely on the materials with which they have the honey and the water could suck the easiest. They were carrying liquids especially with pieces of sponge and paper to their nest. The scientists were surprised that the animal quickly selected the best tool from any materials that they had never seen before. Ants have a tiny brain that has only 250,000 brain cells. "But these animals perform in many areas as good or even better than humans," explains biologist Valerie Banschbach on news New Scientist.

Scientists from Hungary suggests that ants have learned in the course of evolution to use tool for transporting food because they have a small stomach which is not stretchable. 

They can not all at once eat a large amounts of food, but they need stockpile there food in their nest."They must therefore have come up with a way to transport liquid food," said lead researcher Patrizia d'Ettorre.

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