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group effect, social facilitation
An alteration in behavior or physiology within a species brought about by signals that are directed in neither space nor time.
A simple example is social facilitation, in which an activity increases merely from the sight or sound (or other form of stimulation) coming from other individuals engaged in the same activity.
inquilinism, permanent social parasitism
The relation in which a socially parasitic species spends the entire life cycle in the nests of its host species.
Workers are either lacking or, if present, scarce and degenerate in behavior. This condition is sometimes referred to loosely as permanent parasitism.
social anthropology
The anthropological study of human societies, with particular reference to kinship systems, social roles, tribal organization, community structure, classes, and castes, political, economic, and religious institutions, and the like.
social bucket
A reference to the process by which liquid food is carried between the mandibles, thence to be shared with nest mates by mouth-to-mouth contact.
social homeostasis
The maintenance of steady states at the level of the society either by control of the nest microclimate or by regulation of the population density, behavior, and physiology of the group members as a whole.
social insect
In the strict sense, a
true social insect is one that belongs to a eusocial species; in other words, it is an ant, a termite, or one of the eusocial wssps or bees.
In the broad sense, a social insect is one that belongs to either a pre-social or eusocial species.
Social Insects, Especially Ants
Primarily dealing with the topic of ants which live in colonies or "cities".
social parasiism
The co-existence in the same nest of two species of social insects, one of which is parasitically dependent on the other.
The term can also be applied loosely to the relation between symphiles and their social insect hosts.
social stomach
The first segment of the gastral gut, also called the crop, where liquid food can be stored and from which it can be passed to nest mates by regurgitation.
socialgenesis, social genesis
The procedures by which individual ants undergo changes in caste, behavior, and physical location incident to colonial development.
The behavior of a colony of ants as a whole can be understood only if the programs and positional effects of the individual members are both specified and explained more deeply at the physiological level; however, such data is still far from being complete.
temporary social parasitism
Parasitism in which a queen of one species enters an alien nest, usually belonging to another species, kills or renders the resident queen infertile, and takes her place.
The population of the colony then becomes increasingly dominated by the offspring of the parasite queen as the host workers die from natural causes.
