Evidence demonstrates that ants engage in both intercolony conflict and intracolony competition over resources and reproduction. Sources document both broad battle behaviors and internal colony dynamics involving aggression and conflict.
The claim states that ants within the same colony engage in conflict and aggression. While many ant studies focus on intercolony aggression (between different colonies), paper [11] explicitly documents cooperative breeding conflicts and reproductive competition within ant colonies, and paper [9] reviews broad conflict dynamics in ants. The available evidence supports the notion of conflict, though distinguishing intracolony versus intercolony conflict is nuanced; nevertheless, the literature demonstrates that conflict and aggression are well-documented phenomena in ant societies. Thus, the verdict is SUPPORTED.