Communication by Tandem Running in the Ant Genus Cardiocondyla

During field work in Puerto Rico in June,196o, the author had the opportunity to study a hitherto little known form of communication among worker ants. This behavior, which for convenience might be called tandem running, involves the movement outward from the nest of closely coupled tandem pairs, an...

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Main Author: Edward O. Wilson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 1959-01-01
Series:Psyche: A Journal of Entomology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1959/29093