Running in the rain: Impact of water droplets on tandem running recruitment in a tropical ant

Rain hampers essential activities like foraging, guarding and frequently cause damage to the dwelling especially for organisms like ants that live in subterranean nests. Diacamma indicum, a tropical ant, is known to relocate to higher ground by means of tandem running and to build nest mounds when they face rain during monsoon. But what happens if they have to relocate when water droplets are falling on them? We addressed this question by subjecting treatment tandem pairs to water droplets on their body (a proxy to low level rainfall) along their journey to the new nest and compared it with controls. Treatment tandem runs showed significantly higher number of interruptions during the trip and failures to complete the tandem run to new nest. The location at which the treatment was given (near the old nest, midway or near the new nest) did not influence the outcomes. Despite these low levels of water falling on them, tandem leaders continued to recruit to the new nest and completed their ..., , , * File name: README_Dataset_Running in rain_Diacamma indicum
* Manuscript title: Running in the rain: Impact of water droplets on tandem running recruitment in a tropical ant
* Dataset DOI: [[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.wh70rxx08](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.wh70rxx08) ] ([https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.wh70rxx08](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.wh70rxx08))
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* Date created: 2025-03-04
* Date modified: 2025-04-10

Dataset Version and Release History

* Current Version:
* Number: 1.0.2
* Date: 2025-04-10
* Dataset Title: Data for the article \"RUNNING IN THE RAIN RAW DATA.\"
* Date of Issue: 2025-03-04

Data and File Overview

File/Folder Details

* Description: A folder containing 15 files: 14 csv files named \"colony size\", \"colonywise_failed tandem run percentage\", \"colonywise_failed tandem run percentage_location specific\", \"colonywise_percentage of inetrruption per tandem run\", \"colonywise_percentage of switchover per tandem run\", \"co...,