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Amateur footage in which Dr Elizabeth Evesham explains how to collect ants in the field, and demonstrates how to build a nest for ants that would be suitable for home or school, using simple and readily...
1 (30 min): Professor Bernardo Huberman, Palo Alto Research Laboratory, discusses the breakdown and formation of authoritarian regimes and the evolution from cooperative to non-cooperative behaviour. 2 (60...
Professor James Gould of Princeton University investigates ant and bee societies, which have existed for more than 50 million years and look destined to last longer than the human race. A beehive is an...
As an example of the mutualistic and obligate relationship between two different types of organism, shows the relationship between certain species of ant and swollen thorn acacias in Central America. In...
Examines the distribution of the ‘Rufa’ group in Europe and then identifies the areas colonised by those species found in the UK. General anatomy, caste differences, nest structures and environments...
Ponerine ant colonies are taken from their natural habitat and studied in the laboratory. They are individually marked and their behaviour and social organisation are studied. Shows the sociograms of...
In the high forests of northern Trinidad, a rich and varied habitat, two kinds of ant have adopted contrasting ways of making a living. The driver ants are wandering hunters which scour the forest floor for...
In an overgrown tonka bean plantation in the hill forests of Trinidad, looks at the giant locust, the hairy bird-eating spider, a six-inch snake which hunts termites, a termite colony, hercules ants and the...
Examines the development of pupal cocoon recognition in the brood-nursing behaviour of ants ('Formica spp.). Shows experimental procedures that purport to demonstrate that 1) recognition is not innate but...
An ‘off-the-cuff’ record of work being done on a field course in the Knapdale Forest area. Concentrates on the ongoing work being done with wood ants and is aimed at priming future groups of students by...
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