Animal Behavior: Socially Distanced Wasps Learn About Rivals.

Animal Behavior: Socially Distanced Wasps Learn About Rivals.
Curr Biol. 2020 Aug 03;30(15):R878-R880
Authors: Sheehan MJ, Goldberg J
Abstract
Tracking the outcomes of third-party social interactions is a vital social skill but thought to be cognitively complicated. Paper wasps can learn about others' fighting abilities from observation, suggesting surprisingly complex understanding of social networks in a miniature brain.
PMID: 32750347 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Current Biology - August 2, 2020 Category: Biology Authors: Sheehan MJ, Goldberg J Tags: Curr Biol Source Type: research