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ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Do They Know What They Are Doing? Cognitive Aspects of Rescue Behaviour Directed by Workers of the Red Wood Ant

Anna Szczuka, Alicja Sochacka-Marlowe, Julita Korczyńska, Paweł Jarosław Mazurkiewicz, Beata Symonowicz, Olga Kukina, Ewa Joanna Godzińska

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Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 30% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Transcriptional predictors of rescue behaviour in ants.The Journal of experimental biology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Anna SzczukaLaboratory of Ethology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Ludwika Pasteura St. 3, PL 02-093 Warsaw, Poland.
Alicja Sochacka-MarloweLaboratory of Ethology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Ludwika Pasteura St. 3, PL 02-093 Warsaw, Poland.
Julita KorczyńskaLaboratory of Ethology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Ludwika Pasteura St. 3, PL 02-093 Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-9578-8798
Paweł Jarosław MazurkiewiczLaboratory of Ethology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Ludwika Pasteura St. 3, PL 02-093 Warsaw, Poland.
Beata SymonowiczLaboratory of Ethology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Ludwika Pasteura St. 3, PL 02-093 Warsaw, Poland.
Olga KukinaLaboratory of Ethology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Ludwika Pasteura St. 3, PL 02-093 Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-5902-8599
Ewa Joanna GodzińskaLaboratory of Ethology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Ludwika Pasteura St. 3, PL 02-093 Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-6993-2082
Instytut Biologii Doświadczalnej im. Marcelego Nenckiego · PLUniversity of Akron · US

Funding

the subvention of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences NA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ant rescue behaviour belongs to the most interesting subcategories of prosocial and altruistic behaviour encountered in the animal world. Several studies suggested that ants are able to identify what exactly restrains the movements of another individual and to direct their rescue behaviour precisely to that object. To shed more light on the question of how precise the identification of the source of restraint of another ant is, we investigated rescue behaviour of red wood ant

Indexed as

altruismcognitive processesFormica polyctenaFormicidaeHymenopteraprosocial behaviourrescue behavioursocial insects

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PMID38672785
PMCPMC11051173
OpenAlexW4394837296

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Registered trials

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