Information transfer in head-on encounters between leaf-cutting ant workers: food, trail condition or orientation cues?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 343-349

  Farji Brener, A G ^a   Amador Vargas, S ^b   Chinchilla, F ^c   Escobar, S ^d   Cabrera, S ^e   Herrera, M I ^f   Sandoval, C ^g  

^a LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^c Estación Biológica   (Costa Rica)

^d UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE   (Colombia)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^g UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

ant foraging; Atta cephalotes; leaf cutting ant; recruitment; trail traffic

Indexed keywords

ANT; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DENSITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS);

ANIMALIA; ATTA; ATTA CEPHALOTES; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 75049084274     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.11.009     Document Type: Article

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