Research Article

Sequential Load Transport in Grass-Cutting Ants (Atta vollenweideri): Maximization of Plant Delivery Rate or Improved Information Transfer?

Figure 4

Transport time (mean ± SD) of fragments transported by one carrier all the way to the nest (black bars) or by a transport chain (white bars). Transport time includes handling time of foragers and waiting times of a dropped fragment until transport was continued (statistics in text).
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