SummaryEach evening, a few workers of a Brazilian ant doom themselves to die overnight by remaining outside the nest to seal its entrance. This striking behaviour is a novel form of worker self-sacrifice
Uncovering how and why animals explore their environment is fundamental for understanding population...
Social behavior is an important contributor to the success of widely distributed animal taxa, includ...
Anthropogenic noise is an increasing ecological problem, causing animals to alter their behaviour in...
Each evening, a few workers of a Brazilian ant doom themselves to die overnight by remaining outside...
Social insects not only live altruistically, they die so: a new study reveals that moribund ants aba...
© 2015 O'Shea-Wheller et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creat...
Social deprivation can have negative effects on the lives of social animals, including humans, yet l...
Insect societies are complex systems, displaying emergent properties much greater than the sum of th...
SummaryAnimal societies provide perfect conditions for the spread of infections and are therefore ex...
Understanding how predators impact keystone species, like ants, is very important for our understand...
This review focuses on the main acoustic adaptations that have evolved to enhance social communicati...
Worker insects altruistically sacrifice their own reproduction to rear nondescendant kin. This sacri...
Life-history theory predicts that organisms should alter their behavior if life expectancy declines....
Student paper, BIOL 3811, 2009Ants are eusocial insects whose workers may engage in foraging as thei...
Individuals are not identical. Organisms of the same species usually exhibit diverse phenotypes, a p...
Uncovering how and why animals explore their environment is fundamental for understanding population...
Social behavior is an important contributor to the success of widely distributed animal taxa, includ...
Anthropogenic noise is an increasing ecological problem, causing animals to alter their behaviour in...
Each evening, a few workers of a Brazilian ant doom themselves to die overnight by remaining outside...
Social insects not only live altruistically, they die so: a new study reveals that moribund ants aba...
© 2015 O'Shea-Wheller et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creat...
Social deprivation can have negative effects on the lives of social animals, including humans, yet l...
Insect societies are complex systems, displaying emergent properties much greater than the sum of th...
SummaryAnimal societies provide perfect conditions for the spread of infections and are therefore ex...
Understanding how predators impact keystone species, like ants, is very important for our understand...
This review focuses on the main acoustic adaptations that have evolved to enhance social communicati...
Worker insects altruistically sacrifice their own reproduction to rear nondescendant kin. This sacri...
Life-history theory predicts that organisms should alter their behavior if life expectancy declines....
Student paper, BIOL 3811, 2009Ants are eusocial insects whose workers may engage in foraging as thei...
Individuals are not identical. Organisms of the same species usually exhibit diverse phenotypes, a p...
Uncovering how and why animals explore their environment is fundamental for understanding population...
Social behavior is an important contributor to the success of widely distributed animal taxa, includ...
Anthropogenic noise is an increasing ecological problem, causing animals to alter their behaviour in...