Affiliation:
1. Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
2. Biorobotics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.
Abstract
It's an Ant's Life
Eusocial insects live in highly organized societies where groups of individuals carry out specific tasks; for example, caring for the eggs, cleaning the nest, or foraging, which might suggest the presence of an advanced form of organization, similar to what might be expected from more cognitively advanced species.
Mersch
et al.
(p.
1090
, published online 18 April) tracked individual ant movements and interactions to show that their precise social organization results from temporal changes in the spatial location of workers. As they aged, ants largely progressed from being nurses located near the queen, to nest cleaners who move throughout the colony, and finally to foragers moving in and out at the colony edges.
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Cited by
336 articles.
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