Dataset Work-conflicts in acacia ants

Data recorded from videos of field colonies from different sizes, while workers were executing a solitary foraging task. Ants had color-marks depending on the task they were performing, that were recoded as "leaf" and "trunk" after scoring the videos. "Leaf ants" were workers marked at foraging tasks on the leaves; "Trunk ants" were workers marked guarding the tree trunk base. There are unmarked ants that were involved in head-on encounters and in work-conflicts. Besides the binary variables of whether that foraging bout had encounters or conflicts, we added the number of conflicts and encounters with other workers. The data also includes total time the ant was observed(Focal Ant time), time until the task was executed (Execution time), time the ants spent in work-conflicts (Conflict time), all reported in seconds. There is also a column explaining whether the food item was stored or removed from the tree, and whether the final decision was made by the original worker who found the item, or by a nestmate. <br>