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In small slavemaker colonies consisting of one queen, two to five workers and 30 to 60
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"At first, we were quite surprised, as we expected that attacking slavemaker colonies prefer host colonies that provide a better benefit to risk ratio," Mr Pohl explained.
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The pupae are imprinted on the odour of the slavemaker colony and grow up to perform all of the ordinary worker tasks.
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During the attack the slavemaker ants steal host pupae and take them back to their own colony.
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Therefore, a smaller number of scouting events and subsequent raids presented the lowest risk to the slavemaker colony.
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University of Munich, Germany theorised that slavemaker ants chose "easy targets" over more strongly defended colonies as they offered the lowest risk.
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