Nonaggressive behavior: A strategy employed by an obligate nest invader to avoid conflict with its host species
In addition to its builders, termite nests are known to house a variety of secondary opportunistic termite species so‐called inquilines, but little is known about the mechanisms governing the maintenance of these symbioses. In a single nest, host and inquiline colonies are likely to engage in confli...
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creator | Hugo, Helder Cristaldo, Paulo F. DeSouza, Og |
description | In addition to its builders, termite nests are known to house a variety of
secondary opportunistic termite species so‐called inquilines, but little
is known about the mechanisms governing the maintenance of these
symbioses. In a single nest, host and inquiline colonies are likely to
engage in conflict due to nestmate discrimination, and an intriguing
question is how both species cope with each other in the long term.
Evasive behaviour has been suggested as one of the mechanisms reducing the
frequency of host‐inquiline encounters, yet, the confinement imposed by
the nests' physical boundaries suggests that cohabiting species would
eventually come across each other. Under these circumstances, it is
plausible that inquilines would be required to behave accordingly to
secure their housing. Here, we show that once inevitably exposed to hosts
individuals, inquilines exhibit nonthreatening behaviours, displaying
hence a less threatening profile and preventing conflict escalation with
their hosts. By exploring the behavioural dynamics of the encounter
between both cohabitants, we find empirical evidence for a lack of
aggressiveness by inquilines towards their hosts. Such a nonaggressive
behaviour, somewhat uncommon among termites, is characterised by evasive
manoeuvres that include reversing direction, bypassing and a defensive
mechanism using defecation to repel the host. The behavioural adaptations
we describe may play an important role in the stability of cohabitations
between host and inquiline termite species: by preventing conflict
escalation, inquilines may improve considerably their chances of
establishing a stable cohabitation with their hosts. |
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is known about the mechanisms governing the maintenance of these
symbioses. In a single nest, host and inquiline colonies are likely to
engage in conflict due to nestmate discrimination, and an intriguing
question is how both species cope with each other in the long term.
Evasive behaviour has been suggested as one of the mechanisms reducing the
frequency of host‐inquiline encounters, yet, the confinement imposed by
the nests' physical boundaries suggests that cohabiting species would
eventually come across each other. Under these circumstances, it is
plausible that inquilines would be required to behave accordingly to
secure their housing. Here, we show that once inevitably exposed to hosts
individuals, inquilines exhibit nonthreatening behaviours, displaying
hence a less threatening profile and preventing conflict escalation with
their hosts. By exploring the behavioural dynamics of the encounter
between both cohabitants, we find empirical evidence for a lack of
aggressiveness by inquilines towards their hosts. Such a nonaggressive
behaviour, somewhat uncommon among termites, is characterised by evasive
manoeuvres that include reversing direction, bypassing and a defensive
mechanism using defecation to repel the host. The behavioural adaptations
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symbioses. In a single nest, host and inquiline colonies are likely to
engage in conflict due to nestmate discrimination, and an intriguing
question is how both species cope with each other in the long term.
Evasive behaviour has been suggested as one of the mechanisms reducing the
frequency of host‐inquiline encounters, yet, the confinement imposed by
the nests' physical boundaries suggests that cohabiting species would
eventually come across each other. Under these circumstances, it is
plausible that inquilines would be required to behave accordingly to
secure their housing. Here, we show that once inevitably exposed to hosts
individuals, inquilines exhibit nonthreatening behaviours, displaying
hence a less threatening profile and preventing conflict escalation with
their hosts. By exploring the behavioural dynamics of the encounter
between both cohabitants, we find empirical evidence for a lack of
aggressiveness by inquilines towards their hosts. Such a nonaggressive
behaviour, somewhat uncommon among termites, is characterised by evasive
manoeuvres that include reversing direction, bypassing and a defensive
mechanism using defecation to repel the host. The behavioural adaptations
we describe may play an important role in the stability of cohabitations
between host and inquiline termite species: by preventing conflict
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secondary opportunistic termite species so‐called inquilines, but little
is known about the mechanisms governing the maintenance of these
symbioses. In a single nest, host and inquiline colonies are likely to
engage in conflict due to nestmate discrimination, and an intriguing
question is how both species cope with each other in the long term.
Evasive behaviour has been suggested as one of the mechanisms reducing the
frequency of host‐inquiline encounters, yet, the confinement imposed by
the nests' physical boundaries suggests that cohabiting species would
eventually come across each other. Under these circumstances, it is
plausible that inquilines would be required to behave accordingly to
secure their housing. Here, we show that once inevitably exposed to hosts
individuals, inquilines exhibit nonthreatening behaviours, displaying
hence a less threatening profile and preventing conflict escalation with
their hosts. By exploring the behavioural dynamics of the encounter
between both cohabitants, we find empirical evidence for a lack of
aggressiveness by inquilines towards their hosts. Such a nonaggressive
behaviour, somewhat uncommon among termites, is characterised by evasive
manoeuvres that include reversing direction, bypassing and a defensive
mechanism using defecation to repel the host. The behavioural adaptations
we describe may play an important role in the stability of cohabitations
between host and inquiline termite species: by preventing conflict
escalation, inquilines may improve considerably their chances of
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