slavemaking

I have been repeatedly surprised by reactions to my use of the term "slavemaking" to define behavior and of "slave" to define the status of the captured ants in their captors' nests.

Words are our business delagar 2006

I have been repeatedly surprised by reactions to my use of the term "slavemaking" to define behavior and of "slave" to define the status of the captured ants in their captors' nests.

Archive 2006-03-01 delagar 2006

She studies ant species are found in the northeast United States, Atlantic Region: slavemaking ants Protomognathus americanus and Harpagoxenus sublaevis and their hosts Temnothorax spp. and Leptothorax spp.

Science, Education & Society: Science Vocab: Dulosis - Slave-making in Ants The Urban Scientist 2008

Another day my attention was struck by about a score of the slave-makers haunting the same spot, and evidently not in search of food; they approached and were vigorously repulsed by an independent community of the slave-species (F. fusca); sometimes as many as three of these ants clinging to the legs of the slavemaking F. sanguinea.

VIII. Instinct. Special Instincts 1909

In one instance I found to my surprise an independent community of F. flava under a stone beneath a nest of the slavemaking F. sanguinea; and when I had accidentally disturbed both nests, the little ants attacked their big neighbours with surprising courage.

VIII. Instinct. Special Instincts 1909

I am just reading “Manchurian Legacy”, Kazuko Kuramoto’s memoir of a childhood in Manchuria and what hit me in the early chapters was a feeling of slavemaking as a lifestyle choice.

Takeuchi Yoshimi on E. H. Norman 2005