A test of what once seemed too obvious to test—whether ant colonies suffer after being raided by slavemaker ants—suggests that some of the raiding insects have been getting unfair press.
One of more than 20 species called slavemakers, Protomognathus americanus ants are so tiny that a colony lives in an acorn.
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