Adaptive behavioral flexibility of the ant Pachycondyla analis (=Megaponera foetens) (Formicidae: Ponerinae) during prey capture

Sociobiology

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 465-483

  Corbara, Bruno ^a   Dejean, Alain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Learning; Megaponera foetens; Pachycondyla analis; Ponerine ants; Predatory behavior; Prey responses; Termites

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034339894     PISSN: 03616525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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