Foraging Behavior Using ants to explore ecology. Foraging behaviors Organisms should have behaviors...
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Chemical sensors/communication
• Ants have more than 20 different chemicals they can use for sending information to one another
Examples of Ant foraging
• Symbiotic/mutualism + +• Herbivory -
+• Predation + -• Parasitic + -• Competition - -
Mutualism:Ants and Acacias
• Acacia provides:– Food– Home
• Ant provides– Protection– Competitive
advantage