Ants are known for their hard work. A new research unveils how hard working and efficient ants are in the tasks they have been allocated in the colony. The Chinese-German research team found that ants are able to process information in much better way than even search engine Google.

Seeing an individual ant, you must be thinking it is walking on random path. But such is not the case as it is actually leaving a trail of pheromones to help the other ants to save time to reach to food sources. Together, the collective is able to gather food sufficient for a colony to thrive.

Ants are capable of utilizing problem-solving strategies and move from chaos to order position. With the help of intelligent navigational strategies, ants are able to divide themselves for different roles including scouting and gathering when searching food.

Resaerchers got to know about the same after they shared everything known to them about foraging of ants in the form of equations and algorithms and fed the same into computers. The result revealed about how ants divide themselves into different groups.

Ants carrying food repeat the route that leads to a 'self-reinforcing effect of efficiency'. It not only saves the time of the colony but also energy.

"That transition between chaos and order is an important mechanism and I'd go as far as to say that the learning strategy involved in that is more accurate and complex than a Google search", said Professor Jurgen Kurths of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

When in collective, ants form a highly efficient complex network that one find in many natural and social systems. The research has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.