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The behaviour of ant transporters at the old and new nests during successive colony emigrations (2008)
Journal Article
Langridge, E. A., Sendova-Franks, A. B., & Franks, N. R. (2008). The behaviour of ant transporters at the old and new nests during successive colony emigrations. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 62(12), 1851-1861. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-008-0614-4

Colonies of the ant Temnothorax albipennis improve their collective performance over successive emigrations (Langridge et al. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 56:523-529, 2004, Behav Ecol Sociobiol 62:447-456, 2008). Here, by analysing the performance of individ... Read More about The behaviour of ant transporters at the old and new nests during successive colony emigrations.

Can ant colonies choose a far-and-away better nest over an in-the-way poor one? (2008)
Journal Article
Robinson, E. J., Sullivan, K. M., Franks, N. R., Hardcastle, K. A., Collins, S., Smith, F. D., & Sendova-Franks, A. B. (2008). Can ant colonies choose a far-and-away better nest over an in-the-way poor one?. Animal Behaviour, 76(2), 323-334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.02.009

Nest choice in the ant Temnothorax albipennis is a model system for investigating collective decision making. Previous research has demonstrated the sophistication of this decentralized system, yet such studies have focused on binary choices in which... Read More about Can ant colonies choose a far-and-away better nest over an in-the-way poor one?.

Individual and collective choice: Parallel prospecting and mining in ants (2008)
Journal Article
Aleksiev, A. S., Longdon, B., Christmas, M. J., Sendova-Franks, A. B., & Franks, N. R. (2008). Individual and collective choice: Parallel prospecting and mining in ants. Naturwissenschaften, 95(4), 301-305. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-007-0329-9

Decision making is of crucial importance in the lives of both animals and humans. How decisions of group members scale up to group decisions is of great interest. Accordingly, we gave homeless ant colonies (n=67) in three experiments a choice between... Read More about Individual and collective choice: Parallel prospecting and mining in ants.

How experienced individuals contribute to an improvement in collective performance in ants (2008)
Journal Article
Langridge, E. A., Sendova-Franks, A. B., & Franks, N. R. (2008). How experienced individuals contribute to an improvement in collective performance in ants. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 62(3), 447-456. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-007-0472-5

Certain groups of organisms are capable of improving their collective performance with experience. In a recent study, we demonstrated that, over successive emigrations, colonies of the ant Temnothorax albipennis are able to improve their collective p... Read More about How experienced individuals contribute to an improvement in collective performance in ants.