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. We tested the hypothesis that slope influences where worker ants deposit excavated soil on piles near the nest entrance. We predicted that ants will deposit their load near the top of a pile where the slope changes from upward to downward, to prevent material rolling back towards the entrance. We tested this hypothesis by studying five natural colonies of Pheidole oxyops ants at a field site at...
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