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Dr. J. S. Kennedy and Dr. D. L. Gunn1 have discussed the difficulties inherent in the creation of new technical terms in connexion with animal behaviour. Recently Donisthorpe and I have listed (in a paper now in the press2) the specialized scientific terms used in describing and classifying the behaviour of ants. So far as possible, terms used generally in entomology and other branches of biology have been omitted, except where they have a special myrmecological meaning. One hundred and seventy terms have been listed, and each one has been defined, the original author of the term being cited.
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Nature, 155, 178 (1945).
Roy. Ent. Soc. Land., in the press.
"Ants", 423 (New York, 1910).
Roy. Ent. Soc., in the press.
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MORLEY, B. Nomenclature of Animal Behaviour. Nature 155, 485 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155485b0
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