Simple rules result in the adaptive turning of food items to reduce drag during cooperative food transport in the ant Pheidole oxyops

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 91-96

  Czaczkes, T J ^a   Ratnieks, F L W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cooperative transport; Foraging; Group retrieval; Organisation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANT; ARTIFICIAL DIET; BIOMASS; COCKROACH; FOOD; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NATURAL SELECTION; WORKER CASTE;

BLATTARIA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; PHEIDOLE OXYOPS;

EID: 79251601216     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: 14209098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-010-0121-2     Document Type: Article

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