Slave-making Ant (Noun)
Meaning
An ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Polyergus lucidus, the robber ant or amazon ant, is an example of a slave-making ant in the US, regularly carrying away a neighboring ant's colony in parts over months as ants give an evocative raid strategy showcasing superior genetics possibly suggesting origins traced here somehow advanced adaptation providing speed support inside operation resulting relentless conflict evaded consistently mostly larger individuals simply possessing exceptional visual.
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- Once attacked, most of the defending colony are killed or driven off while the children of the colony are taken to the slave-making ant's nest to be reared as slave ants.
- All slave-making ants belong to the subfamily Formicinae, which also includes the genera Lasius, but they differ from other members of the subfamily in their parasitic behavior, especially in raids, as exhibited for instance in Formica sanguinea.
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