The difference in behavioral flexibility among task behaviors in a ponerine ant, Diacamma sp.

Sociobiology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 119-128

  Nakata, Kensuke ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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