1. Fig. 1 Injury-type frequencies and handicap in injured M. analis ants.
Injury-type frequencies and handicap in injured M. analis ants. Box-and-whisker plot showing median (horizontal line), interquartile range (box), distance from upper and lower quartiles times 1.5 interquartile range (whiskers), outliers (>1.5× upper or lower quartile), and significant differences (different letters) for (A) distribution of different injury types being carried by helper ants. Lost limb: ant that lost one or more legs or antennas; Termite clinging: ant that still had a termite clinging to its body; Carried unharmed: ant that appears unharmed to the naked eye (Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test, followed by a Dunn’s test with Bonferroni correction; n = 20 trials with 20 colonies with a total of 154 helped ants). (B) Running speed of ants affected by different injuries and healthy individuals as control (Healthy) (Kruskal-Wallis rank sum test, followed by a Dunn’s test with Bonferroni correction; n = 20 trials with 20 colonies). See also table S1 for detailed statistical results and fig. S1 for illustration of injury types.
Erik Thomas Frank et al. Sci Adv 2017;3:e
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