Ratio-dependent quantity discrimination in quorum sensing ants

• Published in: Animal cognition Vol. 17; no. 6; pp. 1261 - 1268
• Main Author: Cronin, Adam L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.11.2014; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Animal behavior; Animal cognition; Animal ethology; Animals; Ants; Ants - physiology; Behavioral Sciences; Biological and medical sciences; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Colonies; Decision Making; Discrimination (Psychology); Formicidae; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Insects; Invertebrates; Life Sciences; Myrmecina nipponica; Nesting Behavior; Organisms; Original Paper; Protozoa. Invertebrata; Psychology Research; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Quorum Sensing; Social Behavior; Thresholds; Vertebrates; Visual Perception; Zoology; Formicidae; Quorum sensing; Ant; House-hunting; Weber’s law; Insecta; Predatory behavior; Quantization; Cognition; Social insect; Formicoidea; Discrimination; Arthropoda; Ratio; Hymenoptera; Invertebrata; Weber's law; Aculeata

To optimise behaviour, organisms require information on the quantity of various components of their environment, and the ability of animals to discriminate quantity has been a subject of considerable recent interest. This body of research hints at generalised mechanisms of quantity discrimination in...