Protective behavior or ‘true’ tool use? Scrutinizing the tool use behavior of ants

Ecology and Evolution

Ádám Lőrincz¹  Gábor Lőrinczi¹  Orsolya Juhász²  Gábor Módra³  Péter János Kiss³  István Maák⁴ 

[1] Department of Ecology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary;Department of Ecology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary;Doctoral School in Biology, Faculty of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary;Department of Ecology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary;Doctoral School of Environmental Sciences, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary;Department of Ecology, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary;Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland;

关键词: Aphaenogaster subterranea;    debris dropping;    defense response;    food transport;    foraging tool use;   

DOI  :  10.1002/ece3.6968

来源: Wiley

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