军蚁的觅食行为和觅食经济性.ppt

动物行为生态学;军蚁（army ants）的分类地位;Army ant soldier and workers;;Eciton属的军蚁有两种出猎方式: ;Army ant(Eciton burchellii) bivouac; highly efficient foraging and avoidance of resource-depleted areas is compounded by the presence of larvae within the bivouac or nest. As is the case with most arthropods, E. burchellii larvae have voracious appetites and pose the greatestnutritional demand within the bivouac, while being unable to forage themselves.;军蚁的生活史依据其生殖周期可以大体划分为两个时期, 即定居时期和游猎时期。;(1) minor and small medium workers conduced column raids on exploratory trails. These trails could lead to constant food sources such as a termite mound (2) where the workers waited for the opportunity to snatch some prey. The raids could also be conducted underground or at/close to the ground surface (3). In case of food location, the trail was widened to a secondary trail (4). Food was then processed and transported via a nearby trunk trail back to the nest. Dorylus laevigatus could also conduct epigaeic swarm raids (5);Intracolony optimization the day-to-day directional angle seems to be randomly selected either from a clockwise or counterclockwise direction from the previous day’s foraging angle.;