Meaning of "amazon ant" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF AMAZON ANT

amazon ant

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AMAZON ANT

Amazon ant is a noun.

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WHAT DOES AMAZON ANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Polyergus

Polyergus, also called Amazon ants, is a small genus of 14 described species of "slave-raiding" ants. Its workers are incapable of caring for brood, in part due to their dagger-like, piercing mandibles, but more importantly, because in the evolution of their parasitism on certain species of the host genus "Formica", they have lost the "behavioral wiring" to carry out even rudimentary brood care, or even to feed themselves. Polyergus workers exist in essence as a specialized brood-acquiring caste in their mixed Polyergus/Formica colonies, maintaining the Formica worker force by robbing brood, especially pupae, of particular species in the closely related genus Formica in massive colony-to-colony raids. The captured ants are generally referred to as "slaves" in scientific and popular literature, though recent attempts have been made to apply other human cultural models, such as describing the Polyergus individuals of a colony as "raiders" or "pirates" or "kidnappers" and the Formica workers as "helper-ants", or "domesticated animals".

Definition of amazon ant in the English dictionary

The definition of amazon ant in the dictionary is any of several small reddish ants of the genus Polyergus, esp P. rufescens, that enslave the young of other ant species.

TRANSLATION OF AMAZON ANT

Find out the translation of amazon ant to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of amazon ant from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «amazon ant» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 亚马逊蚂蚁
• Translator English - Spanish: amazon ant
• English: amazon ant
• Translator English - Hindi: अमेज़न चींटी
• Translator English - Arabic: الأمازون النمل
• Translator English - Russian: амазонка муравей
• Translator English - Portuguese: amazon formiga
• Translator English - Bengali: অ্যামাজনের এন্টি
• Translator English - French: amazon fourmi
• Translator English - Malay: Semut amazon
• Translator English - German: amazon Ameise
• Translator English - Japanese: アマゾンアリ
• Translator English - Korean: 아마존 개미
• Translator English - Javanese: Amazon ant
• Translator English - Vietnamese: amazon kiến
• Translator English - Tamil: அமேசான் எறும்பு
• Translator English - Marathi: ऍमेझॉन चींटी
• Translator English - Turkish: Amazon karınca
• Translator English - Italian: amazon ant
• Translator English - Polish: mrówka amazonka
• Translator English - Ukrainian: Амазонка мураха
• Translator English - Romanian: Amazon furnică
• Translator English - Greek: amazon μυρμήγκι
• Translator English - Afrikaans: Amazon mier
• Translator English - Swedish: amazon ant
• Translator English - Norwegian: amazon maur

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AMAZON ANT»

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Insects and Spiders of the World

When the colony moves, the slaves find the new location and carry both the brood and the amazon ant workers to the new site. If scientists remove the slaves as an experiment, the amazon ants try to care for their brood. They are not very good ...

‎2003

Adventures among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions

Ant species such as the Amazon ant are more dependent on their slaves than humans have been, aside from a few “slave societies” such as the Roman Empire at the time of Augustus.15 Ant slaves can't breed (but then, they fare no better in ...

Mark W. Moffett, 2010

Ants Thematic Unit

Here are eight of the over 20,000 species: Amazon Ant The Amazon ant is commonly known as the slave ant. Amazon ants live in Europe, Asia, and North America. They raid another colony's nest and capture its pupae (but do not eat them).

Pam East, Bruce Hedges, Janet Hale, 1997

Strange Dwellings: Being a Description of the Habitations of ...

The Ant which employs enforced labour is called the Amazon Ant (Polyergus rufescens), and is tolerably common on the Continent. This insect is not furnished with jaws which are capable of performing the work that usually falls to the lot of the ...

John George Wood, 1890

The Animal Kingdom: Its Varieties and Oddities, Comprising ...

1030 THE AMAZON-ANT. they attach fragments of difi'erent substances; thus constituting a strong defence against the attempts of their enemies. Some of the species employ, for this purpose, bits of leaves, straw, grass, or rushes; others adopt ...

William Bingley, 1877

Natural history: exhibiting in a series of delightful ...

THE AMAZON-ANT. 961 they attach fragments of different substances; thus constituting a strong defence against the attempts of their enemies. Some of the species employ, for this purpose, bits of leaves, straw, grass, or rushes ; others adopt ...

William Bingley, 1871

The Life of the Ant

Here are the essential features of the life of the ants, a life incontestably superior to that of the bees, which is precarious in the extreme,In his unique studies of the social insects: the bee, the termite (or white ant) and the ant, ...

Maurice Maeterlinck, 2001

BINGLEY'S NATURAL HISTORY

THE AMAZON-ANT. 961 they attach fragments of different substances; thus constituting a strong defence against the attempts of their enemies. Some of the species employ, for this purpose, bits of leaves, straw, grass, or rushes ; others adopt ...

REV. W. BINGLEY, 1871

The Monthly Review

An Amazon was frequently seen to approach a negro, and play upon its head with its antennae, when the latter immediately seized the former in its pincers, and deposited it at one of the entrances; the amazon ant then unrolled itself, caressed ...

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths, 1830

The Earth Dwellers: Adventures in the Land of Ants

The amazon military communications system has since been investigated in the closely related amazon ant of Arizona. American Museum of Natural History entomologist Howard Topoff, who as a student worked with Schneirla on army ants, ...

Erich Hoyt, 1997

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Exploring the Globe for the World of Ants

The Amazon ant, for example, takes slaves. Only ants and people engage in large-scale warfare (though other animals conduct raids). «New York Times, Sep 10»