Abstract
Paraponera clavata workers engage in a period of local search after encountering a small amount of artificial nectar. Giving-up times from local search are not distributed normally; there is a strong skew to longer times. There is no statistically significant relationship between the amount of time required to collect the food and the subsequent search time. Giving-up time in response to the first reward presented to an ant is positively correlated with that ant's response to a second such reward. However, giving-up times diminish when an ant is presented with a series of rewards. Local search is a function of individual strategies, which remain relatively constant in the short term.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 673-682 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Journal of Insect Behavior |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1 1996 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Ponerinae
- foraging
- giving-up time
- search strategy
- tropical
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
- Insect Science