Ants, Cataglyphis cursor, Use Precisely Directed Rescue Behavior to Free Entrapped Relatives

Elise Nowbahari; Alexandra Scohier; Jean-Luc Durand; Karen L. Hollis

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006573

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Ants, Cataglyphis cursor, Use Precisely Directed Rescue Behavior to Free Entrapped Relatives

Elise Nowbahari ,

* E-mail: Elise.Nowbahari@leec.univ-paris13.fr

Affiliation Laboratoire d'Éthologie Expérimentale et Comparée EA 4443, Université Paris Nord, Villetaneuse, France
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Alexandra Scohier,

Affiliation Laboratoire d'Éthologie Expérimentale et Comparée EA 4443, Université Paris Nord, Villetaneuse, France
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Jean-Luc Durand,

Affiliation Laboratoire d'Éthologie Expérimentale et Comparée EA 4443, Université Paris Nord, Villetaneuse, France
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Karen L. Hollis

Affiliation Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience & Behavior, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Ants, Cataglyphis cursor, Use Precisely Directed Rescue Behavior to Free Entrapped Relatives

Elise Nowbahari,
Alexandra Scohier,
Jean-Luc Durand,
Karen L. Hollis

Published: August 12, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0006573

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Excellent work

Posted by shearer on 25 Aug 2009 at 23:03 GMT

Great work actually testing the rescue behavior. I'd be interested in seeing just how genetically similar the rescuers need to be to engage in rescue (and if that can be assigned to any specific genetic markers, even independent of knowing how it actually works).

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