Central-place foraging continues beyond the nest entrance: The underground performance of leaf-cutting ants

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 737-744

  Burd, Martin ^a,c   Howard, Jerome J ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FUNGUS; SYMBIOSIS;

ATTA; ATTA COLOMBICA; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 26244460719     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.12.012     Document Type: Article

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