... in relation to social learning and integration of individual and social information in ants. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) Competing interests The authors declare no competing or financial interests. 8 1 2020 9 4 2020 © 2020. Published by The Company...

...Ofer Tchernichovski; Olga Feher; Daniel Fimiarz; Dalton Conley; Joel D. Levine; Daniel J. C. Kronauer; Michael H. Dickinson ABSTRACT Distributed social learning may occur at many temporal and spatial scales, but it rarely adds up to a stable culture. Cultures vary in stability and diversity...

..., when we controlled for the duration of exposure to each flavoured patch, females no longer preferred the flavour previously associated with feeding larvae. This suggests that social learning in this context is indirect, as a result of strong social attraction biasing experience. * Author...

... terrestris Crithidia bombi host–parasite interaction social cue social immunity social learning Foraging behaviour and its optimization was and still remains a centre of evolutionary, ecological and neuroscience research. Solitary animals rely on environmental cues and their experience...