Small workers are more persistent when providing and requiring help in a monomorphic ant
Filip Turza, Krzysztof Miler · 2023
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Description
Filip Turza and Krzysztof Miler watch sand ants save trapped kin, and find small ants stick at the job most. The ants hold one body plan, yet size splits wide and is easy to spot. Their 2023 study sets big and small foragers face to face with a snared nest mate. Each size starts saves at like rates and with like first-move speed.
Small ants keep at the save far past big ants' quit point. When snared in turn, small ants also thrash more for help. The pair read the gap as grit, not skill split: no ant kind owns the save job. Mixed grit may lift the odds a trap ends well. The study is the first to score both the saver and the saved by size in ants.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Filip Turza, Krzysztof Miler |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |