Saving the injured: Evolution and mechanisms

Rescue behavior focused on injured individuals has rarely been observed in animals. These observations though are from very different taxa's: birds, mammals and social insects. Here we discuss likely antecedents to rescue behaviors in ants, like social carrying and alarm pheromones. We then com...

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Autores principales: Frank, Erik T., Linsenmair, K. Eduard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2017
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Article Addendum
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5731505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29260800
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2017.1356516
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description Rescue behavior focused on injured individuals has rarely been observed in animals. These observations though are from very different taxa's: birds, mammals and social insects. Here we discuss likely antecedents to rescue behaviors in ants, like social carrying and alarm pheromones. We then compare similarities and preconditions necessary for rescue behavior focused on injured individuals to evolve across taxa's: a high value of individuals, a high injury risk and social interaction. Ultimately we argue that a similar problem, how to rescue injured group members, has led to different mechanisms to save injured individuals across different taxa.
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spelling pubmed-57315052017-12-19 Saving the injured: Evolution and mechanisms Frank, Erik T. Linsenmair, K. Eduard Commun Integr Biol Article Addendum Rescue behavior focused on injured individuals has rarely been observed in animals. These observations though are from very different taxa's: birds, mammals and social insects. Here we discuss likely antecedents to rescue behaviors in ants, like social carrying and alarm pheromones. We then compare similarities and preconditions necessary for rescue behavior focused on injured individuals to evolve across taxa's: a high value of individuals, a high injury risk and social interaction. Ultimately we argue that a similar problem, how to rescue injured group members, has led to different mechanisms to save injured individuals across different taxa. Taylor & Francis 2017-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5731505/ /pubmed/29260800 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2017.1356516 Text en © 2017 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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