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Sex on Six Legs_ Lessons on Life, Love, and Language From the Insect World - Marlene Zuk [112]

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Passino, K. M., T. D. Seeley, and P. K. Visscher. 2008. Swarm cognition in honey bees. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 62: 401–414.

Pinker, S., and R. Jackendoff. 2005. The faculty of language: What's special about it? Cognition 95: 201–236.

Planqué, R., A. Dornhous, N. R. Franks, T. Kovacs, and J. A. R. Marshall. 2006. Weighing waiting in collective decision-making. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 61: 347–356.

Pollick, A. S., and F. B. M. de Waal. 2007. Ape gestures and language evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104: 8184–8189.

Rittschof, C. C., and T. D. Seeley. 2008. The buzz-run: How honeybees signal "Time to go!" Animal Behaviour 75: 189–197.

Schultz, K. M., K. M. Passino, and T. D. Seeley. 2008. The mechanism of flight guidance in honeybee swarms: Subtle guides or streaker bees? Journal of Experimental Biology 211: 3287–3295.

Seeley, T. D., and P. K. Visscher. 2008. Sensory coding of nest-site value in honeybee swarms. Journal of Experimental Biology 211: 3691–3697.

Seeley, T. D., P. K. Visscher, and K. M. Passino. 2006. Group decision making in honey bee swarms. American Scientist 94: 220–229.

Sherman, G., and P. K. Visscher. 2002. Honeybee colonies achieve fitness through dancing. Nature 419: 920–922.

Skorupski, P., and L. Chittka. 2006. Animal cognition: An insect's sense of time? Current Biology 16: R851-R853.

Smith, E. M., and G. W Otis. 2006. Resolution of a controversy: Functionality of the dance language of the honey bee, Part I. American Bee Journal 3: 242–246.

———. 2006. Resolution of a controversy: Functionality of the dance language of the honey bee, Part II. American Bee Journal 4: 335–340.

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Yang, C., P. Belawat, E. Hafen, L. Y. Jan, and Y.-N. Jan. 2008. Drosophila egg-laying site selection as a system to study simple decision-making processes. Science 319: 1679–1683.

Index


adenine (A), [>]


Alex, African gray parrot, [>], [>]


American Society for Reproductive Medicine, [>]–[>]


Animal Behaviour, [>]


anoles, [>]


Ant (Sleigh), [>]


anthropomorphism


avoiding, [>], [>], [>]


insects and, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]


ants


about, [>]


altruism, [>], [>]


aphids and, [>]


automaton stereotype, [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]


"brood parasitism," [>]


bullet ants, [>]


chemical signatures, [>]


colonies living in crevices/acorns, [>], [>]–[>]


driver ants, [>], [>]


fire ants, [>]


genome sequencing and, [>]–[>]


gypsy ants, [>]


harvester ants, [>]


honeydew, [>], [>]


honeypot ants, [>]


human views of, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]


individual recognition, [>]–[>]


leafcutter ants, [>]–[>]


legionary ants, [>]


memory, [>]


Pachycondyla villosa, [>]–[>]


personality, [>]


queens, [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>]


social ranking, [>]


"stigmergy," [>]


in Sword in the Stone, The (White), [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]


tandem running, [>], [>], [>], [>]


teaching and, [>]–[>]


trophyllaxis, [>]


warfare, [>], [>]–[>]


wood ants, [>]


Zuk as child and, [>]–[>], [>]


See also social insects; specific types


ants,

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