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In an experimental set-up, a colony of the stingless bee Melipona fasciata demonstrated its ability to choose the better of two nectar sources. This colony pattern was a result of the following individual
behavioural decisions: continue foraging, abandon the feeder, restart foraging and initiate foraging. Only very rarely did
individuals switch from one feeder to the other. With the first combination of a rich (2.7 M) and a poor (0.8 M) feeder M. fasciata behaved differently from Apis mellifera. Recruitment occurred to both feeders and the poor feeder was not abandoned completely. When the poor feeder was set to 0.4 M,
M. fasciata abandoned the poor feeder rapidly and allocated more foragers to the rich feeder. These patterns were similar to those reported
for A. mellifera with the first combination of feeders. Over a sequence of 4 days, experienced bees increasingly determined the colony patterns,
and the major function of communication between workers became the reactivation of experienced foragers. The foragers modulated
their behaviour not only according to the profitability of the feeder, but also according to previous experience with profitability
switches. Thus, experience and communication together regulated colony foraging behaviour. These findings and the results of studies with honeybees suggest
that M. fasciata and honeybees use similar decision-making mechanisms and only partly different tools.
Received: 21 December 1998 / Accepted: 5 January 1999 相似文献
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It is unclear whether stingless bees in the genus Melipona (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) can reliably encode the distance to a food source through recruitment sounds produced inside the nest, in part because the sound features correlated with distance also vary with food quality. We therefore trained marked foragers of two species, Melipona mandacaia and M. bicolor, to feeders at different distances and to different sucrose concentrations at the same distance. In both species, foragers successfully recruited to a rich 2.5-m food source and produced pulsed recruitment sounds in which pulse duration was significantly and positively correlated with distance to the rich food source. When returning from poorer food sources (0.6–1.5 m), foragers of both species decreased sound production, producing shorter sound pulses and longer sound interpulses than they did for 2.5 m food located at the same distance. Thus the temporal structure of M. mandacaia and M. bicolor recruitment sounds varies with distance and food quality. However, nestmates were not recruited by performances for poorer food sources (0.6–1.5 m), whose sucrose concentration was sufficiently low to affect recruitment sounds. Surprisingly, the interphase (the time between behavioral phases that communicate location) also increases with decreasing food quality in the closely related honeybees (Apis), suggesting a potential homology in the effect of food quality on the recruitment systems of Apis and Melipona. We explore the evolutionary implications of these similarities.Communicated by M. Giurfa 相似文献
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Penguins may exhibit plasticity in their diving and foraging behaviors in response to changes in prey availability. Chinstrap
penguins are dependent predators of Antarctic krill in the Scotia Sea region, but krill populations have fluctuated in recent
years. We examined the diet of chinstrap penguins at Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, in relation to their diving
and foraging behavior using time-depth recorders over six breeding seasons: 2002–2007. When krill were smaller, more chinstrap
penguins consumed fish. In these years, chinstrap penguins often exhibited a shift to deep dives after sundown, and then resumed
a shallower pattern at sunrise. These night dives were unexpectedly deep (up to 110 m) and mean night dive depths sometimes
exceeded those from the daytime. The average size of krill in each year was negatively correlated to mean night dive depths
and the proportion of foraging trips taken overnight. Based on these patterns, we suggest that when krill were small, penguins
increasingly targeted myctophid fish. The average krill size was negatively correlated to the time chinstrap penguins spent
foraging which suggests that foraging on smaller krill and fish incurred a cost: more time was spent at sea foraging. 相似文献
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The non-random movement patterns of foraging bees are believed to increase their search efficiency. These patterns may be
innate, or they may be learned through the bees’ early foraging experience. To identify the innate components of foraging
rules, we characterized the flight of naive bumblebees, foraging on a non-patchy “field” of randomly scattered artificial
flowers with three color displays. The flowers were randomly mixed and all three flower types offered equal nectar volumes.
Visited flowers were refilled with probability 0.5. Flight distances, flight durations and nectar probing durations were determined
and related to the bees’ recent experiences. The naive bees exhibited area-restricted search behavior, i.e., flew shorter
distances following visits to rewarding flowers than after visits to empty flowers. Additionally, flight distances during
flower-type transitions were longer than flight distances between flowers of the same type. The two movement rules operated
together: flight distances were longest for flights between flower types following non-rewarding visits, shortest for within-type
flights following rewarding visits. An increase in flight displacement during flower-type shifts was also observed in a second
experiment, in which all three types were always rewarding. In this experiment, flower-type shifts were also accompanied by
an increase in flight duration. Possible relationships between flight distances, flight durations and flower-type choice are
discussed.
Received: 20 November 1995/Accepted after revision: 10 May 1996 相似文献
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Ectatomma ruidum is an abundant soil-nesting Neotropical ant, which displays extensive behavioral flexibility during foraging activities. We studied here one unusual element of their behavioral repertoire: ambush predation. A worker of E. ruidum waits near a nest of a social sweat bee, Lasioglossum umbripenne, lunging at incoming bees, or less frequently, at departing bees. However, bees detected ambushing ants and modified their behavior. Dead ants placed at bees' nest entrances significantly decreased bee activity, indicating that bees recognized dead ants as potential predators. Neither simple black models (square and rectangle) nor olfactory cues had any effect on overall bee activity. A returning bee usually approached her entrance and immediately entered, but if an ant was waiting at the nest, a bee was significantly more likely to abort the first approach flight and then to re-approach the nest on the side opposite the ant's position. As models became increasingly ant-like, returning bees more frequently aborted their first approach flight, expressing other behaviors before entering nests. These behaviors included withdrawal followed by an approach from a different direction; zigzagging flights, either from a distance or close to the entrance or even a close inspection; landing a short distance from the nest, then approaching on foot or waiting for several seconds before entering. Ants responded with effective counter-behaviors. Behavioral flexibility in nest entering/exiting by L. umbripenne and in hunting strategy by E. ruidum shows the complexity of this predator-prey relationship, and illustrates the importance of information processing by both species involved in determining the outcome of the interspecific interaction. 相似文献