Communal peeing: A new mode of flood control in ants

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 563-565

  Maschwitz, Ulrich ^a   Moog, J ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ANT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FLOOD; NESTING BEHAVIOR; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANT; ARTICLE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; SURVIVAL; WATER FLOW;

ANIMALS; ANTS; MALAYSIA; NATURAL DISASTERS; POACEAE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TROPICAL CLIMATE; URINATION;

MALAYSIA;

EID: 0034530497     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001140050780     Document Type: Article

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