Meudec M
Laboratory of Ethology and Psychophysiology, University of Tours, Faculté des Sciences, Parc de Grandmont, 37200 Tours France.
Behav Processes. 1982 Dec;7(4):377-82. doi: 10.1016/0376-6357(82)90009-2.
Tapinoma erraticum workers change their nest site if disturbed. Fewer than half of them displace the brood, with varying degrees of efficiency. In order to determine individual reactivity, the following measurements were carried out on each ant during a removal test: (1) seizures of larvae with the mandibles, (2) journeys between the two nests, (3) functional transports. A large number of seizures and a more rapid transport response are poorly correlated with high removal activity. In this situation, the journeys made between the two nests appear independent of transport activity. Each transporting worker was observed to show a characteristic transport rate which may vary during the test period. The extreme heterogeneity of all aspects of individual responses illustrates the probabilistic nature of the behaviour of social insects.
如果受到干扰，游荡法老蚁的工蚁会改变巢穴位置。不到一半的工蚁会转移幼虫，效率各不相同。为了确定个体的反应性，在移除测试期间对每只蚂蚁进行了以下测量：（1）用下颌抓住幼虫，（2）在两个巢穴之间往返，（3）功能性搬运。大量的抓咬行为和更快的搬运反应与高移除活性的相关性较差。在这种情况下，在两个巢穴之间往返的行为似乎与搬运活动无关。观察到每只搬运工蚁都有一个特征性的搬运速度，在测试期间可能会有所变化。个体反应各方面的极端异质性说明了群居昆虫行为的概率性质。
