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- Ant_follower abstract "Ant followers are birds that feed by following swarms of army ants and take prey flushed by those ants. The best-known ant-followers are 18 species of antbird in the family Thamnophilidae, but other families of birds may follow ants including thrushes, chats, ant-tanagers, cuckoos, and woodcreepers. Ant followers may be obligate, meaning that they derive most of their diet by following ant swarms, or non-obligate, meaning they derive only some of their diet from this behaviour. Some species may feed extensively at ant swarms yet may not be obligate ant followers, being able to and regularly feeding away from the swarms as well.Many species of tropical ants form large raiding swarms, but the swarms are often nocturnal or raid underground. While birds visit these swarms when they occur, the species most commonly attended by birds is the Neotropical species Eciton burchellii, which is both diurnal and surface-raiding. It was once thought that attending birds were actually eating the ants, but numerous studies in various parts of E. burchellii's range has shown that the ants act as beaters, flushing insects, other arthropods and small vertebrates into the waiting flocks of "ant followers". Because E. burchellii is the only regular diurnal army ant specialised and regular ant-followers mostly occur in its Neotropical range, but Afrotropical birds do follow driver ants in the genus Dorylus.It was once suggested that the relationship between the obligate and regular ant-followers and the army ants, particularly Eciton burchellii, was mutualistic, with the ants benefiting by having the birds chase prey back down towards them. However experiments where ant followers were excluded have shown that the foraging success of the army ants was 30% lower when the birds were present, suggesting that the birds' relationship was in fact parasitic. This has resulted in a number of behaviours by the ants in order to reduce kleptoparasitism, including hiding of secured prey in the leaf litter and caching of food on trails. It has been suggested that the depressive effect of this parasitism slows the development of E. burchellii swarms and in turn benefits other ant species which are preyed upon by army ants.Despite the easier availability of prey, ant followers face an element of risk, as these small birds can be killed by four stings from fire ants.".
- Ant_follower thumbnail Gymnopithys-leucaspis-001_edit2.jpg?width=300.
- Ant_follower wikiPageID "19681702".
- Ant_follower wikiPageLength "3778".
- Ant_follower wikiPageOutDegree "23".
- Ant_follower wikiPageRevisionID "659748525".
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Afrotropic_ecozone.
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Afrotropical.
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Ant.
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Antbird.
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Army_ant.
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Bird.
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ants.
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Category:Biological_pest_control.
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Category:Bird_behavior.
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Chat_(bird).
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Cuckoo.
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Diurnality.
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Dorylus.
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Eciton_burchellii.
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink File:Gymnopithys-leucaspis-001_edit2.jpg.
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Habia_(bird).
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Kleptoparasitism.
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Mutualism_(biology).
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Neotropic_ecozone.
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Neotropical.
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Nocturnal_animal.
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Nocturnality.
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Parasite.
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Parasitism.
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Thrush_(bird).
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLink Woodcreeper.
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ant follower".
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLinkText "flushed by the ants".
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLinkText "following".
- Ant_follower wikiPageWikiLinkText "insects flushed by the ants".
- Ant_follower hasPhotoCollection Ant_follower.
- Ant_follower wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Ant_follower subject Category:Ants.
- Ant_follower subject Category:Biological_pest_control.
- Ant_follower subject Category:Bird_behavior.
- Ant_follower hypernym Birds.
- Ant_follower type Bird.
- Ant_follower type Pest.
- Ant_follower comment "Ant followers are birds that feed by following swarms of army ants and take prey flushed by those ants. The best-known ant-followers are 18 species of antbird in the family Thamnophilidae, but other families of birds may follow ants including thrushes, chats, ant-tanagers, cuckoos, and woodcreepers. Ant followers may be obligate, meaning that they derive most of their diet by following ant swarms, or non-obligate, meaning they derive only some of their diet from this behaviour.".
- Ant_follower label "Ant follower".
- Ant_follower sameAs Ave_seguidora_de_hormigas.
- Ant_follower sameAs Maurfølgjarar.
- Ant_follower sameAs m.04mxyll.
- Ant_follower sameAs Ant_follower.
- Ant_follower sameAs Ant-follower.
- Ant_follower sameAs Q2591785.
- Ant_follower sameAs Q2591785.
- Ant_follower wasDerivedFrom Ant_follower?oldid=659748525.
- Ant_follower depiction Gymnopithys-leucaspis-001_edit2.jpg.
- Ant_follower isPrimaryTopicOf Ant_follower.