Long-legged and lithe, they so aggressively dominate huge territories in the forest canopies that locals simply call them the tree ants. Or weaver ants, because they make their soccer-ball-size ...

Revealing the personality of an individual or an intimate group of animals in a thought-provoking or memorable way. Ripan was photographing a red weaver ant colony when he spotted this slightly ...

many villagers rely on collecting red ants and their eggs from the wild. These red weaver ants (Oecophylla smaragdina) weave leaves together using larval silk, earning them the nickname “weaver ...