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

<table>Action and reaction behavioural occurrences for <i>C. rufipes</i>, <i>Myrmelachista</i> sp.1 ants, and other morphospecies assemblages during field experiments in the Itacolomi State Park (Itacolomi). The “other actions” and “other reactions” are grouped together because of their low frequency.</table>

Psyche: A Journal of Entomology

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Figure 1: Evidence of Competition Between Two Canopy Ant Species: Is Aggressive Behavior Innate or Shaped by a Competitive Environment? 