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During recruitment, workers of Acromyrmex lundi are conditioned to the odor of the food fragment initially carried by the scout worker. The learned odor cue is used as a decision criterion during food collection.
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Roces, F. Olfactory conditioning during the recruitment process in a leaf-cutting ant. Oecologia 83, 261–262 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00317762
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00317762