Am I missing something here? The headline reads “Ants ‘Hate Each Other’ But Work Together,” but that seems a little disingenuous. In this case, the ants who “hate” one another are from different species and therefore don’t work together. The ants who do work together are from the same species. As near as we can judge these things, therefore, they don’t hate one another. Different species of ants co-exist, no one colony winning out over the other, but I wouldn’t call that “working together.”
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“Hate each other but work together”
Sounds like people.
Which I think might go a ways to explaining the headline. It’s a little anthropomorphizing.
There’s a distinct difference between co-existing and working together. The article doesn’t say that these ants, usually bitter enemies, work to keep each other alive because of the limited resources surrounding them. It’s saying that, because there are limited resources, and specific adapations to them, no one species becomes dominant and both survive.