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. 2016 Jun 14;2016:9473128. doi: 10.1155/2016/9473128

Table 2.

Same legend as for Table 1, except that the experiment was made on two colonies of M. rubra and two colonies of M. sabuleti.

Days, food delivery times, and counting times (t1–t5) M. rubra colonies Mean M. sabuleti colonies Mean
A B A B
Control 1, no food
t1 10 5 7.5 2 0 1.0
t2 = t1 + 20′ 8 5 6.5 4 2 3.0
t3 = t1 + 40′ 8 0 4.0 2 2 2.0
t4 = t1 + 60′ 10 0 5.0 2 2 2.0
t5 = t1 + 80′ 20 0 10.0 3 3 3.0

Control 2, food present
t1 26 10 18.0 10 5 7.5
t2 = t1 + 20′ 20 10 15.0 10 5 7.5
t3 = t1 + 40′ 20 10 15.0 10 10 10.0
t4 = t1 + 60′ 20 10 15.0 10 5 7.5
t5 = t1 + 80′ 20 10 15.0 0 10 5.0

Day 1, food given at t1 and retrieved at the end of t1
t1 17 6 11.5 15 5 10.0
t2 = t1 + 20′ 30 6 18.0 10 5 7.5
t3 = t1 + 40′ 18 3 10.5 7 12 9.5
t4 = t1 + 60′ 10 3 6.5 8 0 4.0
t5 = t1 + 80′ 10 0 5.0 0 10 5.0

Day 2, food given at t2 and retrieved at the end of t2
t1 9 0 4.5 5 6 6.5
t2 = t1 + 20′ 24 16 20.0 21 15 18.0
t3 = t1 + 40′ 11 0 10.5 8 8 8.0
t4 = t1 + 60′ 10 0 5.0 5 5 5.0
t5 = t1 + 80′ 11 8 9.5 0 8 4.0

Day 3, food given at t3 and retrieved at the end of t3
t1 10 10 10.0 0 10 5.0
t2 = t1 + 20′ 3 11 7.0 7 4 5.5
t3 = t1 + 40′ 33 14 23.5 24 20 22.0
t4 = t1 + 60′ 15 13 14.0 3 3 3.0
t5 = t1 + 80′ 10 2 6.0 3 2 2.5

Day 4, food given at t4 and retrieved at the end of t4
t1 18 0 9.0 4 3 3.5
t2 = t1 + 20′ 4 10 7.0 5 3 4.0
t3 = t1 + 40′ 9 6 7.5 8 8 8.0
t4 = t1 + 60′ 30 22 26.0 22 34 28.0
t5 = t1 + 80′ 10 10 10.0 10 14 12.0

Day 5, food given at t5 and retrieved at the end of t5
t1 9 0 4.5 7 2 4.5
t2 = t1 + 20′ 4 4 4.0 5 0 2.5
t3 = t1 + 40′ 7 4 5.5 6 4 5.0
t4 = t1 + 60′ 8 6 7.0 8 8 8.0
t5 = t1 + 80′ 34 20 27.0 34 28 31.0