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Animal Behaviour: Feeding the Superorganism
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Abstract
Insect societies are often described as superorganisms, and there are many functional
parallels between organisms and superorganisms. Elegant work using ants shows that
nutrient regulation, which occurs in many non-social animals, can also occur at the
colony-level.