Temporary prey storage along swarm columns of army ants: an adaptive strategy for successful raiding?

• Main Authors: de Lima, Hilário Póvoas, Teseo, Serafino, de Lima, Raquel Leite Castro, Ferreira-Châline, Ronara Souza, Châline, Nicolas
• Other Authors: School of Biological Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Science::Biological sciences; Army Ants; Eciton
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/163012
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

While pillaging the brood of other ant colonies, Eciton army ants accumulate prey in piles, or caches, along their foraging trails. Widely documented, these structures have historically been considered as by-products of heavy traffic or aborted relocations of the ants' temporary nest, or bivoua...