Word: schneirla
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...Theodore Christian Schneirla of the New York Museum of Natural History has one absorbing interest in life. An animal psychologist of renown, he would rather study the army ant than any insect he knows. Last week he was back in Manhattan from the Canal Zone with new lore about the most predatory of ants and its life in a society of fierce complexity...
...Barro Colorado Island in Gatun Lake, Dr. Schneirla followed the columns of army ants to their strongholds, then studied the biological mechanism which governs their lives...
...when does a queen begin her reproductive life? Dr. Schneirla is not sure, but he has a theory. While the queen is in a bivouac, she is always surrounded by a dense mass of workers, which struggle wildly to lick some substance exuded by her body. The males, no matter how eager, cannot get anywhere near...
...when the queen is on the march from bivouac to bivouac, she is relatively unguarded. Then, thinks Dr. Schneirla, the hitherto frustrated males may get their chance...