Foraging grass-cutting ants (Atta vollenweideri) maintain stability by balancing their loads with controlled head movements

Abstract Grass-cutting ants (Atta vollenweideri) carry leaf fragments several times heavier and longer than the workers themselves over considerable distances back to their nest. Workers transport fragments in an upright, slightly backwards-tilted position. To investigate how they maintain stability...
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Moll, Karin [verfasserIn]

Roces, Flavio

Federle, Walter

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E-Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2010

Schlagwörter:

Terrestrial locomotion

Load

Static stability

Adaptation

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© Springer-Verlag 2010

Übergeordnetes Werk:

Enthalten in: Journal of comparative physiology - Berlin : Springer, 1924, 196(2010), 7 vom: 16. Mai, Seite 471-480

Übergeordnetes Werk:

volume:196 ; year:2010 ; number:7 ; day:16 ; month:05 ; pages:471-480

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DOI / URN:

10.1007/s00359-010-0535-3

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SPR004468538

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