Reconnaissance and latent learning in ants

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1617, 2007, Pages 1505-1509

  Franks, Nigel R ^a   Hooper, James W ^a   Dornhaus, Anna ^a,b   Aukett, Philippa J ^a   Hayward, Alexander L ^a   Berghoff, Stefanie M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b The University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective decision making; House hunting; Memory; Planning for the future; Public and private information; Temnothorax albipennis

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ANT; COLONY; DECISION MAKING; EMIGRATION; HABITAT SELECTION; HOUSING PROVISION; LEARNING; MEMORY; PHEROMONE; STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT;

ANT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; INFORMATION; LEARNING; MEMORY; NESTING; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; ORGANISM COLONY; PLACE PREFERENCE; PLANNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECONNAISSANCE; TEMNOTHORAX ALBIPENNIS;

FORMICIDAE; LEPTOTHORAX ALBIPENNIS;

EID: 34447306859     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0138     Document Type: Article

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