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Ants hold grudges, study suggests

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University of Freiburg researchers say ants remember the smell of attackers.

Ants are more aggressive when confronted with competitors from nests they are familiar with.

They are less likely to carry out such aggressive maneuvers against nests that are further away from their own.

The results have been published in the journal Current Biology .

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