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Individual Activity of Ants

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Following the publication of my note on the “Division of Labour in Ants”1, Dr. T. Cunliffe Barnes of Philadelphia has directed my attention to his paper on “The Rhythms of Activity in Ant Colonies”2, of which I was previously unaware.

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MORLEY, D. Individual Activity of Ants. Nature 160, 122–123 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160122b0

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