Urban colonies are less aggressive but forage more than their forest counterparts in the ant Temnothorax nylanderi - Animal Behavior

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Hypothesis: Urban ant colonies forage more than forest colonies, and are more aggressive Data : Colony-level data of foraging and aggression, site by site, habitat by habitat What was found : urban colonies forage more but are less aggressive than forest colony Data gathering : laboratory experiment of foraging activity and aggression, using video

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See Material and Methods section of the "Urban colonies are less aggressive but forage more than their forest counterparts in the ant Temnothorax nylanderi" (Jacquier et al) in Animal Behavior

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