Research ArticleBEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY Saving the injured: Rescue behavior in the termite-hunting ant Megaponera analis View ORCID ProfileErik Thomas Frank*, Thomas Schmitt, Thomas Hovestadt, Oliver Mitesser, View ORCID ProfileJonas Stiegler and Karl Eduard LinsenmairDepartment of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocentre, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany.↵*Corresponding author. Email: erik.frank{at}uni-wuerzburg.de See allHide authors and affiliations Science Advances 12 Apr 2017:Vol. 3, no. 4, e1602187DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602187 Erik Thomas Frank Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocentre, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany.Find this author on Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for this author on this site ORCID record for Erik Thomas Frank For correspondence: erik.frank@uni-wuerzburg.de Thomas Schmitt Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocentre, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany.Find this author on Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for this author on this site Thomas Hovestadt Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocentre, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany.Find this author on Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for this author on this site Oliver Mitesser Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocentre, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany.Find this author on Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for this author on this site Jonas Stiegler Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocentre, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany.Find this author on Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for this author on this site ORCID record for Jonas Stiegler Karl Eduard Linsenmair Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocentre, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany.Find this author on Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for this author on this site Article Figures & Data Info & Metrics eLetters PDF Article Information vol. 3 no. 4 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1602187 Published By: American Association for the Advancement of Science Online ISSN: 2375-2548 History: Received for publication September 9, 2016Accepted for publication February 16, 2017 . Copyright & Usage: Copyright © 2017, The Authors This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited. Author Information Erik Thomas Frank*, Thomas Schmitt, Thomas Hovestadt, Oliver Mitesser, Jonas Stiegler and Karl Eduard LinsenmairDepartment of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocentre, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany.↵*Corresponding author. Email: erik.frank{at}uni-wuerzburg.de Altmetric Article usage Article lifetimeLast 6 monthsThis monthArticle usage: April 2017 to January 2021 AbstractFullPdf Apr 20171203826732106 May 2017957549372 Jun 2017362174135 Jul 201753018993 Aug 201737816681 Sep 2017278186106 Oct 201722015480 Nov 2017236148125 Dec 201715510387 Jan 201814710765 Feb 20181001932296 Mar 2018349265179 Apr 2018277198130 May 201817519365 Jun 201814312062 Jul 201810415463 Aug 20182536641 Sep 20185122051 Oct 20187525339 Nov 20184127653 Dec 20182538372 Jan 20191128362 Feb 20192724153 Mar 20192019940 Apr 20193118554 May 20191213255 Jun 20191810458 Jul 20191215444 Aug 20191710338 Sep 2019310625 Oct 20191113423 Nov 2019916222 Dec 2019518732 Jan 20201316047 Feb 20201620339 Mar 20202543551 Apr 20201329348 May 2020921635 Jun 20201519528 Jul 20202014731 Aug 20201013429 Sep 20202318643 Oct 20201417134 Nov 2020912359 Dec 20201114838 Jan 202154411 View Full Text
Saving the injured: Rescue behavior in the termite-hunting ant Megaponera analis By Erik Thomas Frank, Thomas Schmitt, Thomas Hovestadt, Oliver Mitesser, Jonas Stiegler, Karl Eduard Linsenmair Science Advances12 Apr 2017 : e1602187 Ants that get injured during predation on termites get saved by their nestmates and recover inside the nest. Supplementary Materials
Saving the injured: Rescue behavior in the termite-hunting ant Megaponera analis By Erik Thomas Frank, Thomas Schmitt, Thomas Hovestadt, Oliver Mitesser, Jonas Stiegler, Karl Eduard Linsenmair Science Advances12 Apr 2017 : e1602187 Ants that get injured during predation on termites get saved by their nestmates and recover inside the nest. Supplementary Materials