Leaf caching in Atta leafcutting ants: Discrete cache formation through positive feedback

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 587-591

  Hart, Adam G ^a   Ratnieks, Francis L W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CACHING;

ANIMALIA; ATTA; ATTA CEPHALOTES; ATTA COLOMBICA; CEPHALOTES; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0033836593     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1332     Document Type: Article

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