title: Animal behavior: The Truman Show for ants.
abstract: A new tracking setup allows researchers to monitor the behavior of individual ants inside a colony. The first results demonstrate a link between age, spatial organization and division of labor, and quantify the dynamics of the colony's social network.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Insect Social Evolution, The Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA. jsaragosti@rockefeller.edu
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Saragosti
authors.forename: Daniel J C
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Kronauer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001000:Ants / Q000502:physiology*; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D008399:Mass Behavior; D013037:Spatial Behavior