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Efficient Egress of Escaping Ants Stressed with Temperature
Fecha
2013-11Registro en:
Boari, Santiago; Josens, Roxana Beatriz; Parisi, Daniel Ricardo; Efficient Egress of Escaping Ants Stressed with Temperature; Public Library of Science; Plos One; 8; 11; 11-2013; 1-7; e81082
1932-6203
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Autor
Boari, Santiago
Josens, Roxana Beatriz
Parisi, Daniel Ricardo
Resumen
In the present work we investigate the egress times of a group of Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) stressed with different heating speeds. We found that the higher the temperature ramp is, the faster ants evacuate showing, in this sense, a group-efficient evacuation strategy. It is important to note that even when the life of ants was in danger, jamming and clogging was not observed near the exit, in accordance with other experiments reported in the literature using citronella as aversive stimuli. Because of this clear difference between ants and humans, we recommend the use of some other animal models for studying competitive egress dynamics as a more accurate approach to understanding competitive egress in human systems.