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dulosis

A Dictionary of Zoology | 1999 | 265 words | Copyright

dulosis (adj. dulotic) The slave-making behaviour of certain parasitic ant species, in which the workers raid nests of other species and remove pupae. These are then reared as slaves in the nest of the dulotic ant species, and pass on foraged food to their captors.

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