Featured White Papers
Content provided in partnership with
The jaws that jump: trap-jaw ants have smashed the record for fastest predatory strike on Earth, with mandibles that double as spring launchers
Natural History, Dec, 2006 by Adam Summers
O. bauri is a member of a large group of trap-jaw ants whose bodies and trap-jaws come in a variety of sizes. That should enable Patek and Suarez to determine the evolutionary history of the jumps, as well as which body parts make for the best jumping. Fortunately, no one has any plans to allow these little beauties to gain a foothold in south Florida. Otherwise my next set of scars might go a lot farther up my leg.
Adam Summers (asummers@uci.edu) is an assistant professor of bioengineering and of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Irvine.
Illustrations by Torn Moore
COPYRIGHT 2006 Natural History Magazine, Inc.
COPYRIGHT 2008 Gale, Cengage Learning
Find Research Guides for:
Find Featured Titles for: News
Most Popular Articles in Reference
- The importance of understanding organizational culture
- Credit card attitudes and behaviors of college students
- What factors attract foreign direct investment?
- Libraries Need Relationship Marketing - mutual interest marketing concept, ...
- How to set performance goals: employee reviews are more than annual critiques
- More »