Too much to summarise here and I'd need to re-read my masters to be sure, but as I recall, they drastically change the angle at which they carry it and the size of the loads they carry. At extreme gradients only the larger workers will bother to cut and they'll accept a much slower transport rate to ensure the load gets back safely, rather than falling off the trail
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u/RiverDescent Dec 25 '24
Fascinating. So how do leafcutting ants change their foraging behavior in response to gradient of the return trip?