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“social”
group effect, social facilitation
(s) (noun); group effects ; social facilitations
(pl)
An alteration in behavior or physiology within a species brought about by signals that are directed in neither space nor time: A simple example of social facilitation, is when an activity increases merely from the sight or sound (or other form of stimulation) coming from other individuals engaged in the same activity.
inquilinism, permanent social parasitism
(s) (noun) (no pl)
The relation in which a socially parasitic species spends the entire life cycle in the nests of its host species: The condition of inquilinism occurs when ant workers are either lacking or, if present, scarce and degenerate in behavior. This condition is sometimes referred to loosely as "permanent parasitism"..
social anthropology
The anthropological study of human societies, with particular reference to kinship systems, social roles, tribal organization, community structure, classes, and castes, political, economic, and religious institutions, and the like.
social bucket
(s) (noun), social buckets
(pl)
A process by which liquid food is carried between the mandibles: By means of the social buckets, food can be shared with nest mates by mouth-to-mouth contact
social homeostasis
(s) (noun), social homeostases
(pl)
The maintenance of steady states at the level of the society: Social homeostasis can be balanced either by control of the nest microclimate or by regulation of the population density, behavior, and physiology of the group members as a whole.
social insect
(s) (noun), social insects
(pl)
An insect that shares the essentials of life, like shelter, food, defense, and cooperation in reproduction: In the strict sense, a true
social insect is one that belongs to a eusocial species; in other words, it is an ant, a termite, or one of the eusocial wasps or bees.
In the broad sense, a social insect is one that belongs to either a pre-social or eusocial species.
Social Insects, Especially Ants
Primarily dealing with the topic of ants which live in colonies or "cities".
social parasiism
(s) (noun), social parasiisms
(pl)
The co-existence in the same nest of two species of social insects: In
social parasiism. one species is parasitically dependent on the other.
Social parasiism can also be applied loosely to the relation between symphiles and their social insect hosts.
social stomach
(s) (noun), social stomachs
(pl)
The first segment of the gastral gut, also called the crop, where liquid food can be stored: The social stomach is quite useful because the contents can be passed to nest mates by regurgitation.
socialgenesis, social genesis
(s) (noun); socialgeneses; social geneses
(pl)
The procedures by which individual ants undergo changes in caste, behavior, and physical location incident to colonial development: The behavior of a colony of ants as a whole, or social genesis, can be understood only if the programs and positional effects of the individual members are both specified and explained more deeply at the physiological level, however such data is still far from being complete.
temporary social parasitism
(s) (noun), temporary social parasitisms
(pl)
Parasitism in which a queen of one species enters an alien nest, usually belonging to another species, kills or renders the resident queen infertile, and takes her place: In a temporary social parasitism, the population of the colony then becomes increasingly dominated by the offspring of the parasite queen as the host workers die from natural causes.