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A small number of workers with specific personality traits perform tool use in ants

Ants use debris as tools to collect and transport liquid food to the nest. Previous studies showed that this behaviour is flexible whereby ants learn to use artificial material that is novel to them and select tools with optimal soaking properties. However, the process of tool use has not been studi...

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Autores principales: Maák, István, Roelandt, Garyk, d'Ettorre, Patrizia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7725502/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33295872
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.61298

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