ReviewFrontiers in psychology2020
Regulation of Ant Foraging: A Review of the Role of Information Use and Personality.
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- Restricted antennal movement impacts the tandem running dynamics in a ponerine ant.BMC ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Elucidating the daily foraging activity pattern ofHeliyon · 2024Article
- A simple mechanism for collective decision-making in the absence of payoff information.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Agitated ants: regulation and self-organization of incipient nest excavation via collisional cues.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2023Article
- Information Theory Opens New Dimensions in Experimental Studies of Animal Behaviour and Communication.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Review
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- Decoding alarm signal propagation of seed-harvester ants using automated movement tracking and supervised machine learning.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
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- Searching Behavior in the Tropical Fire AntZoological studies · 2022Article
- Minimal Organizational Requirements for the Ascription of Animal Personality to Social Groups.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
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Abstract
Animals live in heterogeneous environments where food resources are transient and have to be exploited rapidly. Ants show a wide range of foraging strategies and this activity is tightly regulated irrespective of the mode of recruitment used. Individual foragers base their decision to forage on information received from nestmates (social information). Transmission of information can be in the form of direct physical interactions such as antennation or indirect exchange of information such as laying of pheromone trails. Foragers also rely on information from their internal states or experience (personal information). The interaction between these two sources of information gives rise to plasticity in foraging behavior. Recent studies have examined the role of personality (consistent inter-individual variation in behavioral traits) during ant foraging. Since colonies differ from each other in the distribution of personalities of their members, colonies may consistently differ in behavioral traits, giving rise to colony level personality. However, the interaction between information use and personality, especially at the individual level, remains unexplored. Here, we briefly summarize the literature on the effect of social and personal information on the regulation of ant foraging and the effect of personality on this behavior. We point out that a more focused examination of the interplay between personality and information use will help us understand how behavioral plasticity in the context of foraging is shaped at the colony and individual levels.
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