Communication by Tandem Running in the Ant Genus Cardiocondyla
During field work in Puerto Rico in June,196o, the author had the opportunity to study a hitherto little known form of communication among worker ants. This behavior, which for convenience might be called tandem running, involves the movement outward from the nest of closely coupled tandem pairs, an...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Hindawi Limited
1959-01-01
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| Series: | Psyche: A Journal of Entomology |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1959/29093 |
| Summary: | During field work in Puerto Rico in June,196o, the author had
the opportunity to study a hitherto little known form of communication
among worker ants. This behavior, which for convenience might
be called tandem running, involves the movement outward from the
nest of closely coupled tandem pairs, and it apparently functions as
a substitute or trail-laying to recruit fellow workers to food sources.
On Puerto Rico, tandem running was studied more fully in the species
Cardiocondyla venustula Wheeler but was also observed in a second
member of the genus, C. emeryi Forel. |
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| ISSN: | 0033-2615 1687-7438 |