Ants Can Expect the Time of an Event on Basis of Previous Experiences

Working on three ant species of the genus Myrmica, M. ruginodis, M. rubra, and M. sabuleti, we showed that foragers can expect the subsequent time at which food will be available on the basis of the previous times at which food was present. The ants acquired this expectative ability right after havi...

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Autores principales: Cammaerts, Marie-Claire, Cammaerts, Roger
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Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4923595/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27403457
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9473128
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description Working on three ant species of the genus Myrmica, M. ruginodis, M. rubra, and M. sabuleti, we showed that foragers can expect the subsequent time at which food will be available on the basis of the previous times at which food was present. The ants acquired this expectative ability right after having experienced two time shifts of food delivery. Moreover, the ants' learning score appeared to be a logarithmic function of time (i.e., of the number of training days). This ability to expect subsequent times at which an event will occur may be an advantageous ethological trait.
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spelling pubmed-49235952016-07-11 Ants Can Expect the Time of an Event on Basis of Previous Experiences Cammaerts, Marie-Claire Cammaerts, Roger Int Sch Res Notices Research Article Working on three ant species of the genus Myrmica, M. ruginodis, M. rubra, and M. sabuleti, we showed that foragers can expect the subsequent time at which food will be available on the basis of the previous times at which food was present. The ants acquired this expectative ability right after having experienced two time shifts of food delivery. Moreover, the ants' learning score appeared to be a logarithmic function of time (i.e., of the number of training days). This ability to expect subsequent times at which an event will occur may be an advantageous ethological trait. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016-06-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4923595/ /pubmed/27403457 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9473128 Text en Copyright © 2016 M.-C. Cammaerts and R. Cammaerts. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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