The predatory behaviour of a tramp ant species in its native range.
Workers of the pest ant Paratrechina longicornis participate in a type of group hunting. Each individual forages with its long antennae wide open and moves quickly (6.3 cm/s) along an erratic path surrounded by nestmates behaving in the same way and within range of a recruiting pheromone. They detect prey by contact with successful workers singly capturing and retrieving small prey and seizing larger ones by an appendage. Then they recruit nestmates at short-range; all together they spread-eagle the prey and retrieve them whole.
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Martin
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Département de Biologie des Organismes Animaux, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Douala, BP 24157, Douala, Cameroon.
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Ruth
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Tindo
Maurice
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Njaleu
Lydie Carole Kamaha
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Orivel
Jerôme
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Dejean
Alain
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D000818:Animals; D001000:Ants / Q000502:physiology*; D003058:Cockroaches; D003163:Competitive Behavior; D005106:Exploratory Behavior; D010507:Periodicity; D010675:Pheromones / Q000502:physiology; D011235:Predatory Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D012679:Sense Organs; D013045:Species Specificity
D010675:Pheromones