Insect Heroes? Ants Save Their Injured Comrades

"People always think that for ants or social insects, everything they do is for the good of the colony," said Erik Frank, a doctoral student at the University of Würzburg, in Germany, who led the research. Biologists typically downplay the importance of the individual insect, Frank told Live Science. "Here we show, for the first time, an example where the good of the individual, of saving an individual ant, is good for the colony as well," Frank said.