Vogel Peter
Arbeitsgruppe für Verhaltensforschung, Abteilung für Biologie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-4630, Bochum, Federal Republic of Germany.
Oecologia. 1983 May;58(2):269-271. doi: 10.1007/BF00399230.
The myrmicine ant Crematogaster brevispinosa attacks juveniles and possibly adults of the iguanid lizard, Anolis lineatopus; bitten juveniles usually run away. A juvenile A. lineatopus caged together with 38 C. brevispinosa specimens died within hours due to attacks by these ants. On a study site in Kingston, Jamaica, fewer A. lineatopus were found to inhabit a patch densely occupied by C. brevispinosa than a structurally similar patch where this ant was not present. Similarly, fewer A. lineatopus eggs and anole egg-shells were found in the patch with C. brevispinosa than in that where this species was absent. These findings bear directly on the innate ant avoidance response of juvenile A. lineatopus demonstrated in the laboratory.
短刺弓背蚁会攻击变色蜥属蜥蜴细纹安乐蜥的幼体，可能还会攻击成体；被咬的幼体通常会逃走。一只与38只短刺弓背蚁标本关在一起的细纹安乐蜥幼体，因遭受这些蚂蚁的攻击，在数小时内死亡。在牙买加金斯敦的一个研究地点，发现细纹安乐蜥在短刺弓背蚁密集占据的区域中的栖息数量，比在结构相似但没有这种蚂蚁的区域要少。同样，在有短刺弓背蚁的区域中发现的细纹安乐蜥卵和安乐蜥蛋壳，比没有该物种的区域要少。这些发现直接关系到在实验室中证明的细纹安乐蜥幼体对蚂蚁的先天回避反应。
