Behaviour among ants:
• Communication: antennal contact, stridulation, grooming, any other shared behaviour, (except trailing);
• Defence: activities regarding nest and trail defence, territorial expansion (incl. warfare with other ants - %), suicide bombing, etc.;
• Nesting: building and repair of nests, including illustrations of nests (excavations nesting materials, nest structure), including galleries and "cow sheds", and middens;
• Cooperation and competition: joint actions, trophallaxis, vampirsim
• Mating: activities and observations of alates;
• Slavery and Slaves: slavery (raiding nests for workers), parasitism (living off other ants or their food in their nests) and similar behaviours -%;
• Trailing: moving in trails (for any reason: foraging, movement or nest relocation - columns on ants on the move);

Feeding:
• Locomotion: (Foraging): searching for food and transporting food (pieces) to the nest;
• Predation/food: attacking or transporting live organism that is identifiable for food - %;
• Cultivation and Farming: growing fungi or farming other insects (aphids, scales, etc.) and associated behaviour (e.g. 'milking', protection) - %;
• Scavenging: consuming dead organisms (not killed by the ants) - %;
• Warfare and raiding: Raiding other ants/termites for food - %;
• Myrmecochory: transport or eating of ant-fruit associated with seeds- dispersal but not predation (seed not consumed);

Behaviours with other insects/animals:
• Hosts: animals living in or sheltering in ants nests (this can include other ant species) -%;
• Mimicry: other animals pretending to be or looking like ants (incl. other ant species) - please add the Ant Mimicry project %%.

• Casual interactions: avoidance behaviour, odd or random encounters;
• Feeding on ants: observations of other animals feeding on ants (or evidence thereof), also parasitism and fungi (e.g. Zombie Ants) - $;

• Other: any activities worth recording not included in above. Please add a comment describing the behaviour and its interest.

% - please add an interaction for the food item, "cow", carcass, etc. Ideally good views of these should be included. We recommend https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/interactions-s-afr
%% - https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/ant-mimics

To see a breakdown of ant behaviour recorded so far to date, please see:

https://www.inaturalist.org/observation_fields/14522

Plus:
If you would like to help us curate this project, please see these observations.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&project_id=interactions-s-afr&taxon_id=47336&verifiable=any&not_in_project=ant-behaviour

1. In the filter box: see if you have any eligible observations, and add them to the project.
   
2. If you can help with other observations, please do so. it will be appreciated.

If you have any ideas for improving this project, please suggest them here ...