Avoiding plants unsuitable for the symbiotic fungus: learning and long-term memory in leaf-cutting ants

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  2010

• Venue

  Animal Behaviour

• Publication date

  2010-03-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.ANBEHAV.2009.12.021
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