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    foraging communication. Trophallaxis has even evolved as a parasitic strategy in some species to obtain food from their host. Trophallaxis can also result in...
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    Other ants then extract nourishment from them, through the process of trophallaxis. They function as living larders. Honeypot ants belong to any of several...
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    and is fed and cared for by workers. Food is given to the larvae by trophallaxis, a process in which an ant regurgitates liquid food held in its crop...
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    procedure refined our understanding of trophallaxis, revealing that transfer flow can switch direction during a trophallaxis event, that foragers receive (as...
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    other types of bees use other methods altogether. The exchange of food, trophallaxis, can be used to communicate the quality of a food source, temperature...
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    process of worker termites feeding other nestmates is known as trophallaxis. Trophallaxis is an effective nutritional tactic to convert and recycle nitrogenous...
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    specialization enables important communication between colonial insects through trophallaxis. The crop can be found in the foregut of insects. In a bird's digestive...
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    typically a medical or veterinary concern. Placentophagy: eating placenta Trophallaxis: eating food regurgitated by another animal Zoopharmacognosy: self-medication...
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    of amino acids in nectar and larval saliva: the nutritional basis for trophallaxis in social wasps". Evolution. 36 (6): 1318–22. doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646...
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    secrete a sugary substance for workers to eat; this exchange is a form of trophallaxis. As insect sources of food diminish in late summer, larvae produce less...
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    Organism", which pioneered the idea of superorganisms. Wheeler considered trophallaxis or the sharing of food within the colony as the core of ant society....
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    are obligate kleptoparasites of ants. They obtain food by soliciting trophallaxis in their host ants or by scraping off waxes from the bodies of ants....
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    gain some nutrients before laying the eggs. To do this, females undergo trophallaxis with the larvae. The larvae are first fed masticated food by the females...
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    fly (Calliphora vicina) Pollenia sp. blowing bubbles (video, 3m 1s) Trophallaxis Nelson, R.W. and C. G. Couto. Small Animal Internal Medicine, 4th ed...
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    Liquid food exchange (trophallaxis) in O. smaragdina...
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    Hypercarnivore Hypocarnivore Mesocarnivore Parasitism Scavenger Surplus killing Trophallaxis Antipredator adaptation Carnivorous plant Carnivorous fungus Carnivorous...
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