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| Content Provider | Springer Nature Link |
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| Author | Moll, Karin Roces, Flavio Federle, Walter |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | Grass-cutting ants (Atta vollenweideri) carry leaf fragments several times heavier and longer than the workers themselves over considerable distances back to their nest. Workers transport fragments in an upright, slightly backwards-tilted position. To investigate how they maintain stability and control the carried fragment’s position, we measured head and fragment positions from video recordings. Load-transporting ants often fell over, demonstrating the biomechanical difficulty of this behavior. Long fragments were carried at a significantly steeper angle than short fragments of the same mass. Workers did not hold fragments differently between the mandibles, but performed controlled up and down head movements at the neck joint. By attaching additional mass at the fragment’s tip to load-carrying ants, we demonstrated that they are able to adjust the fragment angle. When we forced ants to transport loads across inclines, workers walking uphill carried fragments at a significantly steeper angle, and downhill at a shallower angle than ants walking horizontally. However, we observed similar head movements in unladen workers, indicating a generalized reaction to slopes that may have other functions in addition to maintaining stability. Our results underline the importance of proximate, biomechanical factors for the understanding of the foraging process in leaf-cutting ants. |
| Starting Page | 471 |
| Ending Page | 480 |
| Page Count | 10 |
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| ISSN | 03407594 |
| Journal | Journal of Comparative Physiology A |
| Volume Number | 196 |
| Issue Number | 7 |
| e-ISSN | 14321351 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag |
| Publisher Date | 2010-05-16 |
| Publisher Place | Berlin, Heidelberg |
| Access Restriction | One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) |
| Subject Keyword | Terrestrial locomotion Load Static stability Adaptation Atta Animal Physiology Zoology Neurosciences |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Physiology Behavioral Neuroscience Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics |
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