TY  - JOUR
AU  - Beck, J.
AU  - Kunz, B.K.
T1  - Cooperative self-defence: Matabele ants (Pachycondyla analis) against African driver ants (Dorylus sp.; Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
JF  - Myrmecological News
Y1  - 2007
DA  - 2007
PB  - The Austrian Society of Entomofaunistics
SN  - Print: 1994-4136 - Online: 1997-3500
N1  - 10.25849/myrmecol.news_010:027
DO  - 10.25849/myrmecol.news_010:027
SP  - 27-28
KW  - Altruism, interspecific interaction, Ivory Coast, social insects.
AB  - Only few documented cases of cooperative self-defence outside the nest are known in social insects. We report observations of Pachycondyla analis (Latreille, 1802) workers helping each other against attacking epigaeic driver ants (Dorylus sp.) in a West African savannah. The considerably larger P. analis scanned each other's legs and antennae and removed Dorylus clinging to their extremities. In experimentally staged encounters we could reproduce this behaviour.
JA  - Myrmecological News
M3  - Original Article
VL  - 10