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Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2022 Insects feature some of the most complex societies in the animal kingdom, but a historic perception persists that such complexity emerges from interactions between individuals whose behaviours are largely guided by innate routines. Challenging this perception, recent work shows that insects feature many aspects of social intelligence found in ...
Lars Chittka, Natacha Rossi
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Visual Cognition in Social Insects
Annual Review of Entomology, 2011 Visual learning admits different levels of complexity, from the formation of a simple associative link between a visual stimulus and its outcome, to more sophisticated performances, such as object categorization or rules learning, that allow flexible responses beyond simple forms of learning. Not surprisingly, higher-order forms of visual learning have
Avarguès-Weber, Aurore +2 more
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Cleptobiosis in Social Insects [PDF]
Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 2012 In this review of cleptobiosis, we not only focus on social insects, but also consider broader issues and concepts relating to the theft of food among animals.
Michael D. Breed +2 more
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SOCIAL INFORMATION USE IN SOCIAL INSECTS [PDF]
, 2014 Social learning plays a valuable role in the lives of many animal taxa, sometimes allowing individuals to bypass the costs of personal exploration. The ubiquity of this behaviour may arise from the fact that learning from others is often underpinned by ...
Dawson, Erika H
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Nutrition in Social Insects [PDF]
, 2020 Nutrition concerns physiological and behavioral processes involved in the acquisition of nutrients and other chemicals required for energy, growth, tissue maintenance, and reproduction. While some components are synthetized by the insects themselves, many are ingested with the food, which for social insects can be as diverse as plant leaves, flower ...
Kraus, Stéphane +2 more
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Associative learning in insects : evolutionary models, mushroom bodies, and a neuroscientific conundrum [PDF]
, 2013 Environmental predictability has for many years been posited to be a key variable in whether learning is expected to evolve in particular species, a claim revisited in two recent papers.
Hollis, Karen, Guillette, Lauren
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South African Journal of Science, 2021 Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 – the causative agent of COVID-19 – can be prevented through non-pharmaceutical interventions such as observing proper hand hygiene using alcohol-based hand rubs/sanitisers (ABHRs) as recommended by the WHO and local health ...
Abdullahi A. Yusuf
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Lessons From Insect Fungiculture: From Microbial Ecology to Plastics Degradation
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Anthropogenic activities have extensively transformed the biosphere by extracting and disposing of resources, crossing boundaries of planetary threat while causing a global crisis of waste overload. Despite fundamental differences regarding structure and
Mariana O. Barcoto +3 more
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Social immunity in insects [PDF]
Current Biology, 2019 When animals become sick, infected cells and an armada of activated immune cells attempt to eliminate the pathogen from the body. Once infectious particles have breached the body's physical barriers of the skin or gut lining, an initially local response quickly escalates into a systemic response, attracting mobile immune cells to the site of infection.
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What associative learning in insects tells us about the evolution of learning and fixed behavior [PDF]
, 2015 Contemporary models for the evolution of learning suggest that environmental predictability plays a critical role in whether learning is expected to evolve in a particular species, a claim originally made over 50 years ago.
Hollis, Karen L. +6 more
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