Ants are better at teamwork than humans

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Nature has once again proven to be an efficient designer, showing time and again how ant teamwork is much better than that of humans. "Teamwork is often assumed to enhance group performance, particularly for physical tasks. However, in both human and non-human animal teams, the effort contributed by each member may, in fact, decrease as team size grows," researchers wrote in a study recently published in the journal Current Biology. This phenomenon is called the Ringelmann effect.