Ants, Cataglyphis cursor, use precisely directed rescue behavior to free entrapped relatives

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Nowbahari, Elise ^a   Scohier, Alexandra ^a   Durand, Jean Luc ^a   Hollis, Karen L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

^b MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TRAPPING; ANT; ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BITE; CATAGLYPHIS CURSOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; EXPERIMENTATION; INSECT CASTE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; CATAGLYPHIS CURSOR; FORMICIDAE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL;

EID: 68949155484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006573     Document Type: Article

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