Teaching in tandem-running ants

By Nigel R. Franks, T. Richardson. Nature, 2006

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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Natural pedagogy as evolutionary adaptation (2011, neutral): “The most obvious beneficiaries of such a cultural transmission system are children, who have to acquire the technological, social, conventional and institutional knowledge and skills that are necessary for survival in their culture.”
Nine-spined sticklebacks deploy a hill-climbing social learning strategy (2009, background): “Capacities for teaching and imitation have been widely touted as likely candidate processes (Boyd and Richerson 1985; Galef 1992; Tomasello 1994), but recent evidence for imitation (now observed in 5 species of mammal discounting humans and 6 species of birds; Hoppitt and Laland 2008) and teaching (”
Self-organized structures in a superorganism: do ants "behave" like molecules? (2006, background): “Furthermore, social learning can be achieved by tandem running ant species, in the sense that an experienced leader can “teach” to a naïve pupil worker how to reach a target such as a new food source or a new nesting site [54] see also [79].”
Teaching Is a Natural Cognitive Ability for Humans (2012, background): “For tandem running ants, Franks and Richardson (2006), Leadbeater, Raine, and Chittka (2006), and Richardson, Sleema, McNamara, Houston, and Franks (2007) showed that it goes as follows: An ant knows how get to the location of a food source and a näıve ant does not.”
‘Conformity’ in Norway rats? (2008, background): “…described as unique to humans and subsequently discovered to have functional analogues in the behaviour of various animals (e.g. teaching: ants: Franks & Richardson 2006; meerkats: Thornton & McAuliffe 2006; pied babblers: Raihani & Ridley 2008; culture: guppies: Laland & Hoppitt 2003;…”
Teaching in Hunter-Gatherers (2018, background): “This definition is rooted in behavioral biology and does not rule out the possibility that other species have evolved to teach in certain contexts as a solution to the problems faced in their environments (Franks and Richardson 2006; Raihani and Ridley 2008; Thornton and McAuliffe 2006).”
The evolution of teaching (2008, background): “However, strong quantitative evidence for teaching has recently emerged from three distantly related species: tandem-running ants, Temnothorax albipennis (Franks & Richardson 2006), meerkats, Suricata suricatta (Thornton & McAuliffe 2006) and pied babblers, Turdoides bicolor (Raihani & Ridley 2008).”
Decision making by small and large house-hunting ant colonies: one size fits all (2006, background): “Tandem running involves one ant slowly leading another ant to the new nest site (Möglich 1978; Franks & Richardson 2006).”