Data & Code for "Effects of load mass and size on cooperative transport in ants over multiple transport challenges"

This zip file includes all data support files for the paper: Effects of load mass and size on cooperative transport in ants over multiple transport challenges. Included are two data files, as well as code to reproduce all figures and all statistical analyses. This project sought to understand how load mass and size interact and affect cooperative transport in Paratrechina longicornis ants. Groups of ants were given large bait objects to carry, which were uniform in material, shape, and attractiveness, but which varied in mass and size, independently. We recorded groups as they initiated movement of these loads, and as they navigated around obstacles. We measured group size, time to move, sinuosity, velocity, as well as the number and proportion of time the groups spent stalled.