Leaf caching in the leafcutting ant Atta colombica: Organizational shift, task partitioning and making the best of a bad job

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 227-234

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; CACHING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LEAF;

PANAMA;

ACROMYRMEX; ATTA; ATTA CEPHALOTES; ATTA COLOMBICA; CEPHALOTES; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0034858819     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2001.1743     Document Type: Article

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