Atta (genus) - Social Organization

Social Organization

Atta ants are eusocial, meaning they exhibit cooperative care for immature individuals, have an overlap of at least two generations in same society, and exist as both reproductive and nonreproductive individuals.

Read more about this topic:  Atta (genus)

Famous quotes containing the words social and/or organization:

    Man is known to be a selfish, as well as a social being.
    James Madison (1751–1836)

    Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might.
    Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)