Ant wars: Combat strategies, territory and nest defence in the leaf- cutting ant Atta laevigata

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1207-1217

  Whitehouse, Mary E A ^b   Jaffe, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD SIMÓN BOLÍVAR   (Venezuela)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTA LAEVIGATA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

FIGHTING; LEAF-CUTTING ANT;

EID: 0030457283     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0126     Document Type: Article

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