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slave-making ant
[sleyv-mey-king]
noun
an ant of a species that raids the colonies of other ant species, carrying off larvae and pupae to be reared as slave ants.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of slave-making ant1
First recorded in 1810–20
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He selects three cases which he found it specially hard to deal with: that of the cuckoo, that of the cell-building bee, and of the slave-making ant.
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If we had not known of any other slave-making ant, it would have been hopeless to speculate how so wonderful an instinct could have been perfected.
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Formica sanguinea was likewise first discovered by P. Huber to be a slave-making ant.
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