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Latency time and absence of group effect

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We suggest that group effect need not be invoked to explain the differences in latency times exhibited by groups of different sizes in the initiation of building in the termite Macrotermes subhyalinus (Rambur). A simple, alternative, model is presented, that is fully consistent with experimental data.

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  1. Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA. E-mail: bonabeau@santafe.edu, , , , , , US

    E. Bonabeau

  2. Laboratorie d'Ethologie et de Psychologie Animale, CNRS-UMR 5550, Université Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse Cédex, France. E-mail: theraula@cict.fr, , , , , , FR

    G. Theraulaz

  3. Unit of Theoretical Behavioral Ecology, Service de Chimie-Physique, CP 231, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Boulevard du Triomphe, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium. E-mail: jldeneub@ulb.ac.be, , , , , , BE

    J.-L. Deneubourg

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Received 26 September 1997; revised 18 December 1997; accepted 23 December 1997.

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Bonabeau, E., Theraulaz, G. & Deneubourg, JL. Latency time and absence of group effect. Insectes soc. 45, 191–195 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s000400050079

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