Collective behaviour is not robust to disturbance, yet parent and offspring colonies resemble each other in social spiders
D. N. Fisher, J. L. L. Lichtenstein, R. Costa-Pereira, J. Yeager, J. N. Pruitt
The paper examines how collective foraging aggressiveness in social spider colonies responds to disturbances and whether parent-offspring colonies resemble each other in this behavior.
bioRxiv · Sep 8, 2019 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology