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...
Main Author: | Edward O. Wilson |
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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 |
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