Ants Save Mates Trapped in Sand (LiveScience.com)
LiveScience.com - Helpful acts, such as grooming or foster parenting, are common
throughout the animal kingdom, but accounts of animals rescuing one
another from danger are exceedingly rare, having been reported in the
scientific literature only for dolphins, capuchin monkeys, and ants. New research shows that in the ant Cataglyphis cursor, the behavior is surprisingly sophisticated.
