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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Main Author: Charbonneau, Daniel
Other Authors: Dornhaus, Anna
Language:en_US
Published: 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