Ethological Studies of Insect Behavior

Baerends, Gerard P.

doi:10.1146/annurev.en.04.010159.001231

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“…This caused the wasp to start creating a brand new tube out from the hole in the curve, resulting in a second funnel structure being built on top of the first. Importantly, and consistent with Evans' (1966) model, external stimuli are not the sole elicitors of behaviour (Baerends, 1959). Baerends studied digger wasps that provided for several nests at the same time.…”

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“…Depending upon the size of the larva, and upon the amount of food remaining in the nest, the wasp will hunt for more prey to be added to the nest. Baerends (1959) found that the state of the nest would affect behaviour only when the wasp made its first inspection. If he added or removed food after the inspection, the foraging behaviour of the wasp was not altered accordingly, even though the wasp was exposed to the new situation inside the nest when it returned to it with new prey.…”

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From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots

Dawson¹,

Dupuis²,

Wilson³

2010

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Accompanying this book is additional web support that provides pdf files of traditional, "wordless" LEGO instructions for building robots, downloadable programs for controlling the robots that we describe, and videos that demonstrate robot behaviour. This web support is available at http://www.bcp.psych.ualberta.ca/~mike/BricksToBrains/.The instructional images that are provided in this book were created by first building a CAD model of the robot using the LDRAW family of programs. This is a set of programs available as freeware from http:// www.ldraw.org/. The CAD files were then converted into the instructional images using the LPUB4 program, available as freeware from www.kclague.net/LPub4.htm. Resources are available that provide detailed instructions on how to use such software tools (Clague, Agullo, & Hassing, 2002). The NXC code for the various robots described in this book was created, and downloaded to the robot, using the BricxCC utility, available as freeware at http://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/. This utility provides an excellent help file to describe the components and the syntax of the NXC programming language.All of the photographs used in Chapter 1 were taken by Nancy Digdon, and are used with her permission. The beaver in Section 1.2 was in Astotin Lake at Elk Island National Park near Edmonton, Alberta. The beaver dam in the same section is located at the nature trail in Miramichi, New Brunswick. The two images of the bald-faced hornet nest were also taken at Miramichi. The wasp nest under construction in Section 1.10 was found at Elk Lake Park, near Victoria, British Columbia.

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From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots

Dawson¹,

Dupuis²,

Wilson³

2010

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“…This vibrational signal has not been reported for I. purpureus in the literature, however vibrational alarm signals have been observed for other species of ants [27] . The second signal was a tapping motion with the hind leg on the ground or vibrating in the air; again this signal has not been reported for I. purpureus and it is not clear if this motion is related to stridulatory motion as observed in other ants [3] or if it is some kind of displacement activity (behaviour in captivity) [28] .…”

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Quantifying Ant Activity Using Vibration Measurements

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Ant behaviour is of great interest due to their sociality. Ant behaviour is typically observed visually, however there are many circumstances where visual observation is not possible. It may be possible to assess ant behaviour using vibration signals produced by their physical movement. We demonstrate through a series of bioassays with different stimuli that the level of activity of meat ants (Iridomyrmex purpureus) can be quantified using vibrations, corresponding to observations with video. We found that ants exposed to physical shaking produced the highest average vibration amplitudes followed by ants with stones to drag, then ants with neighbours, illuminated ants and ants in darkness. In addition, we devised a novel method based on wavelet decomposition to separate the vibration signal owing to the initial ant behaviour from the substrate response, which will allow signals recorded from different substrates to be compared directly. Our results indicate the potential to use vibration signals to classify some ant behaviours in situations where visual observation could be difficult.

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“…In the many later studies on increasingly detailed and diverse aspects of insect behavior (e.g. Baerends, 1959;O'Neill, 2001), the cricket test no longer plays a significant role. However, there are still a few later reports on the cricket test.…”

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TheSphexstory: How the cognitive sciences kept repeating an old and questionable anecdote

Keijzer¹

2013

Philosophical Psychology

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Ethological Studies of Insect Behavior

Cited by 18 publications

References 85 publications

From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots

From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots

Quantifying Ant Activity Using Vibration Measurements

TheSphexstory: How the cognitive sciences kept repeating an old and questionable anecdote

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