Data from: Allometric scaling of metabolism is linked to colony aggressiveness in ants

These data are supplementary to a study entitled: "Allometric scaling of metabolism is linked to colony aggressiveness in ants". These data describe metabolic rates and behavior (aggressiveness) in ant colonies across size. The majority of scaling relationships are established on solitary organisms, but metabolism also scales allometrically with colony size in eusocial insect societies. One possible parameter that may affect metabolism in social insect colonies, is a colony's collective behavioral phenotype. These data were collected to assess metabolic scaling relationships in whole ant colonies and relate their metabolic performance to between-colony differences in collective aggressiveness. Specifically, the data were used to determine metabolic scaling relationships in aggressive and docile ant colonies, and estimate the size-independent multi-trait metabolic costs of collective aggressiveness.