[The capacity of ants for multiple alterations in the maze habit].
Ability was shown of ants Myrmica rubra to multiple reconstructions of the habit elaborated in symmetrical multialternative maze under motivation of care for the progeny (transportation of breed of the own species). Reconstruction consisted in the change of reinforcement location on the left or right aim spot. The ants showed the ability to carry out the series of eight reconstructions during one-two days. An improvement took place of the fulfillment of the last reconstructions in comparison with the first ones. Peculiarities of learning and reconstructions were found in two groups of animals differing by conditions of learning: at reinforcement on both ain spors or on one of them. The results obtained are considered as indices of high plasticity of the behaviour of ants of the studied species.
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Zhukovskaia
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D000818:Animals; D001000:Ants / Q000502:physiology*; D018782:Maze Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D009042:Motivation; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D013997:Time Factors
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