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A social mechanism facilitates ant colony emigrations over different distances (2016)
Journal Article
Franks, N. R., Edgley, D. E., Wilson-Aggarwal, D. K., O'Shea-Wheller, T. A., O'Shea-Wheller, T., Wilson-Aggarwal, D., …Franks, N. (2016). A social mechanism facilitates ant colony emigrations over different distances. Journal of Experimental Biology, 219(21), 3439-3446. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.145276

© 2016. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd. Behavioural responses enable animals to react rapidly to fluctuating environments. In eusocial organisms, such changes are often enacted at the group level, but may be organised in a decentralised f... Read More about A social mechanism facilitates ant colony emigrations over different distances.

The effect of social information on the collective choices of ant colonies (2016)
Journal Article
Burns, D. D., Burns, D., Sendova-Franks, A. B., & Franks, N. R. (2016). The effect of social information on the collective choices of ant colonies. Behavioral Ecology, 27(4), 1033-1040. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arw005

© 2016 The Author. In collective decision making, groups collate social information to inform their decisions. Indeed, societies can gather more information than individuals - so social information can be more reliable than private information. Colon... Read More about The effect of social information on the collective choices of ant colonies.

Exploration adjustment by ant colonies (2016)
Journal Article
Sendova-Franks, A., Stumpe, M. C., Doran, C., Stumpe, M., Sendova-Franks, A. B., & Franks, N. R. (2016). Exploration adjustment by ant colonies. Royal Society Open Science, 3(1), 150533. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150533

© 2016 The Authors. How do animals in groups organize their work? Division of labour, i.e. the process by which individuals within a group choose which tasks to perform, has been extensively studied in social insects. Variability among individuals wi... Read More about Exploration adjustment by ant colonies.

Migration control: A distance compensation strategy in ants (2016)
Journal Article
O’shea-Wheller, T. A., O'Shea-Wheller, T., Sendova-Franks, A. B., & Franks, N. R. (2016). Migration control: A distance compensation strategy in ants. Naturwissenschaften, 103(7), article 66. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-016-1386-8

©The Author(s) 2016. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com. Migratory behaviour forms an intrinsic part of the life histories of many organisms but is often a high-risk process. Consequently, varied strategies have evolved to... Read More about Migration control: A distance compensation strategy in ants.

Ants determine their next move at rest: Motor planning and causality in complex systems (2016)
Journal Article
Hunt, E. R., Baddeley, R. J., Worley, A., Sendova-Franks, A. B., & Franks, N. R. (2016). Ants determine their next move at rest: Motor planning and causality in complex systems. Royal Society Open Science, 3(1), 150534. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.150534

© 2016 The Authors. To find useful work to do for their colony, individual eusocial animals have to move, somehow staying attentive to relevant social information. Recent research on individual Temnothorax albipennis ants moving inside their colony’s... Read More about Ants determine their next move at rest: Motor planning and causality in complex systems.