Fascinating experiments done with humans and ants.
"Unsurprisingly, the cognitive abilities of humans gave them an edge in the individual challenge, in which they resorted to calculated, strategic planning, easily outperforming the ants.
In the group challenge, however, the picture was completely different, especially for the larger groups. Not only did groups of ants perform better than individual ants, but in some cases they did better than humans."
https://phys.org/news/2024-12-ants-superior-humans-group-problem.html
Neuroscientist postdoc. Interested in ethologically-relevant neural coding, vision and decision-making. Currently based at the Department of Basic Neurosciences (UNIGE).