2021
DOI: 10.3758/s13420-021-00503-3
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Rescue specialists in Cataglyphis piliscapa ants: The nature and development of ant first responders

Abstract: Previous research in our laboratories has demonstrated that, within each colony of Cataglyphis piliscapa (formerly C. cursor) ants, only some individuals are capable of performing a complex sequence of behavioral patterns to free trapped nestmates-a sequence that not only is memory-dependent but also is responsive to the particular circumstances of that entrapment and how the rescue operation unfolds. Additionally, this rescue behavior is inherited patrilineally from but a few of the many males that fertilize … Show more

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“…This was possible thanks to the application of a novel version of the nestmate rescue test consisting of a confrontation of potential rescuers with a nestmate victim entrapped in an artificial snare. In contrast to earlier studies with the use of the artificial snare bioassay [29,59,61,62,[64][65][66][67][68][69][70][72][73][74][75][76][77], in our study each nestmate victim was bearing on its body not just one, but two wire loops, one placed on its petiole and an additional one placed on its leg. Only the loop on the victim's petiole was acting as a snare, the loop on the leg was not implicated in the victim's entrapment.…”
Section: The Most Important Novel Aspects Of Our Methods and Findingsmentioning
confidence: 70%
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“…This was possible thanks to the application of a novel version of the nestmate rescue test consisting of a confrontation of potential rescuers with a nestmate victim entrapped in an artificial snare. In contrast to earlier studies with the use of the artificial snare bioassay [29,59,61,62,[64][65][66][67][68][69][70][72][73][74][75][76][77], in our study each nestmate victim was bearing on its body not just one, but two wire loops, one placed on its petiole and an additional one placed on its leg. Only the loop on the victim's petiole was acting as a snare, the loop on the leg was not implicated in the victim's entrapment.…”
Section: The Most Important Novel Aspects Of Our Methods and Findingsmentioning
confidence: 70%
“…About twenty years ago, Czechowski et al (2002) [28] employed the term "rescue behaviour" in the title and the text of the paper describing rescue behaviour displayed by workers of three ant species (Formica sanguinea, Formica fusca and Formica cinerea) in response to ant victims captured by predatory antlion larvae (Myrmeleon formicarius). This study provided inspiration for further extensive research carried out both in the field and in the laboratory with the use of two main bioassays: antlion larva capture bioassay, during which ant rescue behaviour was elicited in response to an ant captured by an antlion larva [59][60][61][62][63] and artificial snare bioassay, during which ant rescue behaviour was elicited in response to a victim ant entrapped in an artificial snare [29,59,61,62,[64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77].…”
Section: Ant Rescue Behaviour: Contexts and Bioassaysmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Many such species occur in sandy habitats, in which pits dug by pit-building predators as well as other opportunities to get trapped exist [ 42 , 43 , 44 ]. The congeneric species Cataglyphis cursor or C. piliscapa rescue workers when trapped [ 42 , 45 ].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%