Ants offer special advantages for some important kinds of basic biological research. The colony is a superorganism. It can be analyzed as a coherent …

- Bert Holldobler

The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colo…

- Bert Holldobler

If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.

- Bert Holldobler

We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.

- Bert Holldobler