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Jasper Ooi
Jasper Ooi
Jul 28, 2024

Can the longer legs also help a major navigate terrain with its bulky form?

Good question. There's been some work on it here: https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1467803911000788


Jasper Ooi
Jasper Ooi
Jul 29, 2024

Thanks! I'll check it out.

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Majors have long legs or a more erect way of walking to easily walk over smaller workers

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July 28, 2024

Smaller workers stay closer to the ground making the defense more effective.

it could be interesting to do something similar to the paper about locomotion changes in different casts in C.fellah (https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.243776)

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