How Load-Carrying Ants Avoid Falling Over: Mechanical Stability during Foraging in Atta vollenweideri Grass-Cutting Ants

BACKGROUND: Foraging workers of grass-cutting ants (Atta vollenweideri) regularly carry grass fragments larger than their own body. Fragment length has been shown to influence the ants’ running speed and thereby the colony’s food intake rate. We investigated whether and how grass-cutting ants mainta...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Moll, Karin, Roces, Flavio, Federle, Walter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
Materias:
Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3534694/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23300994
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0052816

Internet

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3534694/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23300994
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0052816

Ejemplares similares