A simple model of recruitment-based foraging in ants illustrates the idea that synchronized patterns of activity can …, may help explain why bursts of synchronization have been observed in several species of ants. …

In several species of ants, workers cooperate to retrieve large prey. Usually, one ant finds a prey item, tries to move … ants tries to move large prey, the ants change position and alignment until the prey can be moved toward the nest. A … of cooperative transport in ants.<p> <p> Published in Robotics and Autonomous Systems30 (2000), 85-101. …

organization of traffic flows in ants under crowded conditions has only been studied very recently. The related results suggest new … computer simulations for generalized setups, in which ants have more alternatives or the alternative ways are of different …

Innate vision-based aversions to model and mimic were investigated using a mimicry system in which the models were ants … group, the "ordinary salticids" as predators. The mimics considered belonged to another group, salticids that resemble ants … of dead arthropods (ants, ant mimics, and an array of non--ant-like species) mounted in a lifelike posture. When …

toleration of winged males. The model is applicable more generally in species that have dimorphic males, such as some other ants …

Jumping spiders (Salticidae) usually avoid ants, but some species within this family single out ants as preferred prey …, while others (especially the species in the genus Myrmarachne) are Batesian mimics of ants. Field records show that ant …

part of the study, I compared colony-level preference among eight species of ants that differ in their relative access to …