Funny enough, I was just listening to the bit on ant intelligence from Radiolab: http://www.radiolab.org/2007/aug/14/ http://www.radiolab.org/2007/aug/14/ tl;

Funny enough, I was just listening to the bit on ant intelligence from Radiolab: http://www.radiolab.org/2007/aug/14/ http://www.radiolab.org/2007/aug/14/ tl;dl - Longtime ant researcher is resigned to the fact _individual_ ants are incredibly stupid and ineffective, sometimes just carrying a stick back and forth for days. But in colonies - somehow brilliance can emerge. They'll can predict major thunderstorms well enough in advance to build defensive walls around the entrance to their colony to direct floods around it.