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The Organization of Slave Raids in Dulotic Ants — a Comparative Study (Hymenoptera; Formicidae)
Author(s) -
Buschinger Alfred,
Ehrhardt Werner,
Winter Ursula
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
zeitschrift für tierpsychologie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.739
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1439-0310
pISSN - 0044-3573
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1980.tb01053.x
Subject(s) - intraspecific competition , interspecific competition , hymenoptera , biology , brood , ecology , host (biology) , zoology , evolutionary biology
Slavemaking occurs in 8 genera or ants belonging to 2 subfamilies. Their raiding behaviour is described and compared. The basic organisation of a raid comprises scouting, recruitment, fight, and brood transportation. These elements can ordinarily be derived from the behaviour of the independent host species. Certain trends in the evolution of recruitment and fighting behaviour are discussed. “Intraspecific slavery”, which has been described by various authors, probably belongs to territorial behaviour. We doubt whether it represents an evolutionary precursor of true, interspecific slavery.