With a little help from my friends: Individual and collaborative performance during trail clearing in leaf‐cutting ants

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Bringing a Time–Depth Perspective to Collective Animal Behaviour

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Exploring the effects of individual traits and within-colony variation on task differentiation and collective behavior in a desert social spider

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Do small swarms have an advantage when house hunting? The effect of swarm size on nest-site selection by Apis mellifera

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The role of individuality in collective group movement

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Allometric scaling of foraging rate with trail dimensions in leaf-cutting ants

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The energetics of running stability: costs of transport in grass-cutting ants depend on fragment shape

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Fast and accurate decisions through collective vigilance in fish shoals

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Cooperative food transport in the Neotropical ant, Pheidole oxyops

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Energetics and foraging behaviour of the European seed harvesting ant Messor capitatus: I. Respiratory metabolism and energy consumption of unloaded and loaded workers during locomotion

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