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  • n  an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants
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  • Scientists Discover New Slave-making Ant Species From Eastern US
    Pensoft Publishers A group of scientists from the University of Mainz and the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Goerlitz, headed by Susanne Foitzik and Bernhard Seifert, recently described a new slave-making ant species from the eastern USA. They baptized the new ant Temnothorax pilagens – from pilere (Latin): to pluck, plunder or pillage. The paper was published in the open access journal ...
    Jan. 10, 2014 - redOrbit
  • Minimalistic raiding parties of a slave-hunting ant crack castles
    A group of scientists from the University of Mainz and the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Goerlitz, headed by Susanne Foitzik and Bernhard Seifert, recently described a new slave-making ant species from the eastern USA. They baptized the new ant Temnothorax pilagens -- from pilere (Latin): to pluck, plunder or pillage. The paper was published in the open-access journal ZooKeys.
    Jan. 9, 2014 - EurekAlert!

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