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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2025

Behavioural biomechanics: leaf-cutter ant cutting behaviour depends on leaf edge geometry.

Frederik Püffel, Victor Kang, Mia Yap, Mohammad Shojaeifard, Mattia Bacca, David Labonte

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Frederik PüffelDepartment of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3917-0942
Victor KangDepartment of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0959-1364
Mia YapDepartment of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Mohammad ShojaeifardDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Mattia BaccaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-8459-2036
David LabonteDepartment of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1952-8732

Funding

H2020 European Research CouncilHuman Frontier Science Program
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Leaf-cutter ants cut fresh leaves to grow a symbiotic fungus as crop. During cutting, one mandible is typically anchored onto the leaf lamina while the other slices through it like a knife. When initiating cuts into the leaf edge, however, foragers sometimes deviate from this behaviour and instead use their mandibles symmetrically, akin to scissors.

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AntsBehavior, AnimalFeeding BehaviorPlant LeavesAnimalsBiomechanical Phenomenabehavioural plasticitycutting forcesinsect–plant interactionleaf laminasheet buckling

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PMID40262644
PMCPMC12014232

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