An efficient foraging strategy is one of the most important traits for the fitness of animals. The theory of optimal foraging tries to predict foraging behaviour through the overarching question: how animals should forage so as to minimize costs while maximizing profits? Social insects, having occupied nearly every natural niche through widely different strategies, offer themselves as an ideal group to study how well optimal foraging theory can explain their behaviour and success. Specialization often leads to unique adaptations in morphology and behaviour. I therefore decided to investigate the behaviour of Megaponera analis. This ponerine ant species is specialized on hunting only termites of the subfamily Macrotermitinae at their forag...
Cooperation is beneficial for social groups and is exemplified in its most sophisticated form in soc...
Survival and longevity are two important fitness parameters for species with low reproductive rates,...
The foraging ecology of marine top predators is intricately linked to intrinsic characteristics of ...
An efficient foraging strategy is one of the most important traits for the fitness of animals. The t...
Foraging behavior is a particularly fascinating topic within the studies of social insects. Decision...
All animal and plant species must disperse in order to survive. Although this fact may seem trivial,...
Die Entwicklung stabiler Tiergruppen ist ein wichtiger Übergang in der Evolution, der aufgrund des s...
Caching food provides a variety of benefits to an individual, such as the build up of reserves for p...
Behavioural traits were assumed to be the most flexible traits in animals (Briffa et al. 2008). Howe...
Pollinating insects exhibit a complex behavior while foraging for nectar and pollen. Many studies ha...
In captivity, cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) continue to be a challenge to breed. Scientists have worke...
In comparison with medical immunology, which focuses on mechanistic descriptions of defense mechanis...
All living organisms leverage mechanisms and response systems to optimize reproduction, defense, sur...
Marker assisted selection (MAS) was a first attempt to exploit molecular marker information for sele...
Durch das öffentliche und politische Interesse an der Tierhaltung und den daraus resultierenden Gese...
Cooperation is beneficial for social groups and is exemplified in its most sophisticated form in soc...
Survival and longevity are two important fitness parameters for species with low reproductive rates,...
The foraging ecology of marine top predators is intricately linked to intrinsic characteristics of ...
An efficient foraging strategy is one of the most important traits for the fitness of animals. The t...
Foraging behavior is a particularly fascinating topic within the studies of social insects. Decision...
All animal and plant species must disperse in order to survive. Although this fact may seem trivial,...
Die Entwicklung stabiler Tiergruppen ist ein wichtiger Übergang in der Evolution, der aufgrund des s...
Caching food provides a variety of benefits to an individual, such as the build up of reserves for p...
Behavioural traits were assumed to be the most flexible traits in animals (Briffa et al. 2008). Howe...
Pollinating insects exhibit a complex behavior while foraging for nectar and pollen. Many studies ha...
In captivity, cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) continue to be a challenge to breed. Scientists have worke...
In comparison with medical immunology, which focuses on mechanistic descriptions of defense mechanis...
All living organisms leverage mechanisms and response systems to optimize reproduction, defense, sur...
Marker assisted selection (MAS) was a first attempt to exploit molecular marker information for sele...
Durch das öffentliche und politische Interesse an der Tierhaltung und den daraus resultierenden Gese...
Cooperation is beneficial for social groups and is exemplified in its most sophisticated form in soc...
Survival and longevity are two important fitness parameters for species with low reproductive rates,...
The foraging ecology of marine top predators is intricately linked to intrinsic characteristics of ...