title: The predatory behaviour of a tramp ant species in its native range.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Département de Biologie des Organismes Animaux, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Douala, BP 24157, Douala, Cameroon.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kenne
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mony
authors.forename: Maurice
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tindo
authors.forename: Lydie Carole Kamaha
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Njaleu
authors.forename: Jerôme
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Orivel
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dejean
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D010675:Pheromones