Why are There 'Lazy' Ants? How Worker Inactivity can Arise in Social Insect Colonies
"All cold-blooded animals and a large number of warm-blooded ones spend an unexpectedly large proportion of their time doing nothing at all, or at any rate, nothing in particular." (Elton 1927) Many animals are remarkably "lazy", spending >50% of their waking hours "resti...
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The University of Arizona.
2016
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/621287 http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/621287 |