Ethogram Wilson 1976

A Cephalotes varians ethogram from: Wilson E.O. 1976. A social ethogram of the neotropical arboreal ant, Zacryptocerus varians (Fr. Smith). Animal Behavior. 24:354-363. DOI 10.1016/S0003-3472(76)80043-7

"Thirty eight categories of behavioural acts were recorded in the minor worker caste. When the frequency data (number of acts observed per category) were fitted to a lognormal Poisson distribution by the Fagen-Goldman method (see Fagen 1974), the total number of behavioural categories, including those still unseen, was estimated to be forty-two, with a 95 per cent confidence interval of [38, 46]."

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