Harvesting Ants
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Home range orientation and territoriality in harvesting ants.
Trunk trails, used by Pogonomyrmex barbatus and P. rugosus during foraging and homing, have the effect of avoiding aggressive confrontations between neighboring colonies of the same species. They channel the mass of foragers of hostile neighboring nests into diverging directions, before each ant pursues its individual foraging exploration. This channeling subtly partitions the foraging grounds ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1899
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/060174a0