Leadership – not followership – determines performance in ant teams
Richardson et al. investigate the relationship between task performance and teamwork in ant colonies. Targeted removals of prominent leaders and followers during ‘tandem running’ - a cooperative team task in which one ant physically leads another to a resource - reveal that leadership, and specifica...
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Nature Portfolio
2021
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| Résumé: | Richardson et al. investigate the relationship between task performance and teamwork in ant colonies. Targeted removals of prominent leaders and followers during ‘tandem running’ - a cooperative team task in which one ant physically leads another to a resource - reveal that leadership, and specifically the consistency of leaders, influences tandem performance but ‘followership’ does not. |
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