Efficient Egress of Escaping Ants Stressed with Temperature

被引：42

作者：

Boari, Santiago ^{[1
,2
]}

Josens, Roxana ^{[2
,3
]}

Parisi, Daniel R. ^{[3
,4
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Buenos Aires, Fac Ciencias Exactas & Nat, Dept Fis, RA-1428 Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina

[2] Univ Buenos Aires, Fac Ciencias Exactas & Nat, Grp Estudio Insectos Sociales, RA-1428 Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina

[3] Consejo Nacl Invest Cient & Tecn, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina

[4] Inst Tecnol Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina

来源：

PLOS ONE | 2013年 / 8卷 / 11期

关键词：

EVACUATION;

D O I：

10.1371/journal.pone.0081082

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

In the present work we investigate the egress times of a group of Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) stressed with different heating speeds. We found that the higher the temperature ramp is, the faster ants evacuate showing, in this sense, a group-efficient evacuation strategy. It is important to note that even when the life of ants was in danger, jamming and clogging was not observed near the exit, in accordance with other experiments reported in the literature using citronella as aversive stimuli. Because of this clear difference between ants and humans, we recommend the use of some other animal models for studying competitive egress dynamics as a more accurate approach to understanding competitive egress in human systems.

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