Evidence of Competition Between Two Canopy Ant Species: Is Aggressive Behavior Innate or Shaped by a Competitive Environment?

Table 1

Dyadic encounters occurring at the laboratory of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) for all treatments and species involved.

	Treatment	Species
1	Control C. rufipes Itacolomi	C. rufipes Itacolomi × C. rufipes Itacolomi
2	Control C. rufipes UFJF	C. rufipes UFJF × C. rufipes UFJF
3	Control C. sericeiventris UFJF	C. sericeiventris UFJF × C. sericeiventris UFJF
4	Neighbours	C. rufipes UFJF × C. sericeiventris UFJF
5	Same species	C. rufipes UFJF × C. rufipes Itacolomi
6	Different species	C. rufipes Itacolomi × C. sericeiventris UFJF

Itacolomi = Itacolomi State Park; UFJF = Campus of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora.