We thank the German Research Foundation for funding this research project(DFG,grant no.FO 298/31-1).
Foragers use several senses to locate food,and many animals rely on vision and smell.It is beneficial not to rely on a single sense,which might fail under certain conditions.We examined the contribution of vision and ...
funding this research project(DFG;grant no.FO 298/31-1).
Animals often search for food more efficiently with experience.However,the contribution of experience toforaging success under direct competition has rarelybeen examined.Here we used colonies of an individually foragi...
Injury is common in nature resulting,for example,from fighting,partial predation,or the wear of body parts.Injury is costly,expressed in impaired performance,failure in competition,and a shorter life span.A survey of ...