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Animal Behavior: Socially Distanced Wasps Learn About Rivals

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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… Click to show full 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.

Keywords: wasps learn; wasps; socially distanced; behavior socially; animal behavior

Journal Title: Current Biology
Year Published: 2020

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