Loner Spiders Prevail as Pioneers

Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - 03:21 in Biology & Nature

A spider looking to immigrate to a different environment is three to four times more likely to survive if it goes by itself, as opposed to as part of a group. “This is a pretty surprising result that breaks from long-held intuitions that moving as a group would enhance survival rates (for social organisms),” said […]

Read the whole article on Science Blog

More from Science Blog

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net