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SUBMITTER: Pinter-Wollman N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3431114 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pinter-Wollman Noa N Gordon Deborah M DM Holmes Susan S
Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology 20120505 5
Environmental conditions and physical constraints both influence an animal's behavior. We investigate whether behavioral variation among colonies of the black harvester ant, Messor andrei, remains consistent across foraging and disturbance situations and ask whether consistent colony behavior is affected by nest site and weather. We examined variation among colonies in responsiveness to food baits and to disturbance, measured as a change in numbers of active ants, and in the speed with which col ...[more]