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According to Wikipedia, Theodore Christian Schneirla was an American animal psychologist who performed some of the first studies on the behavior patterns of army ants. Schneirla was educated at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor , and joined the staff of New York University in 1928. He made the first of eight trips to the Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal Zone, to study the behavior of army ants in 1932. His "Studies on Army Ants in Panama," published the next year, provided new insight into their behavior. He discovered that these ants operate on a 36-day cycle consisting of a 16-day nomadic pattern followed by a 20-day stationary phase. In 1934 he reported that ants follow a particular pattern when moving into new territory and that raids by these insects peak once during the morning and again in the afternoon. Sudden changes in weather also were found to give rise to sudden bursts of activity. In 1944 he showed that their raids were caused by the level of excitability of the ant colony and not by a scarcity of prey.

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Aspects of Stimulation and Organization in Approach/Withdrawal Processes Underlying Vertebrate Behavioral Development (1965) (313)
Army ants;: A study in social organization (1971) (310)
Principles of animal psychology (1952) (247)
Behavioral Development and Comparative Psychology (1966) (195)
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OBSERVATION AND EXPERIMENTATION IN THE FIELD STUDY OF BEHAVIOR (1950) (83)
Development of home orientation in newly born kittens. (1969) (78)
ANIMAL RESEARCH PANEL, 1960 (1961) (74)
A consideration of some conceptual trends in comparative psychology. (1952) (69)
Selected writings of T. C. Schneirla (1972) (60)
A theory of army-ant behavior based upon the analysis of activities in a representative species. (1938) (59)
Studies on army ants in Panama. (1933) (57)
A unique case of circular milling in ants, considered in relation to trail following and the general problem of orientation. American Museum novitates ; no. 1253 (1944) (44)
Mechanisms in conditioning. (1942) (43)
Further studies of the army-ant behavior pattern. Mass organization in the swarm-raiders. (1940) (37)
Raiding and Other Outstanding Phenomena in the Behavior of Army Ants. (1934) (36)
The Bivouac or Temporary Nest as an Adaptive Factor in Certain Terrestrial Species of Army Ants (1954) (35)
Raiding and related behaviour in two surface-adapted species of the old world doryline ant, Aenictus. (1966) (31)
"Critical Periods" in the Development of Behavior. (1963) (31)
Army-ant life and behavior under dry-season conditions. 4, Further investigation of cyclic processes in behavioral and reproductive functions. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 95, article 5 (1950) (25)
The nature of ant learning. II. The intermediate stage of segmental maze adjustment. (1943) (25)
Motivation and efficiency in ant learning. (1933) (22)
THE ARMY-ANT BEHAVIOR PATTERN: NOMAD-STATARY RELATIONS IN THE SWARMERS AND THE PROBLEM OF MIGRATION (1945) (22)
Sexual broods and the production of young queens in two species of army ants (1952) (21)
Problems in the biopsychology of social organization. (1946) (21)
Studies on the nature of ant learning. I. The characteristics of a distinctive initial period of generalized learning. (1941) (21)
Initial maze behavior as a function of maze design. (1937) (20)
Army-ant life and behavior under dry-season conditions. 3, The course of reproduction and colony behavior. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 94, article 1 (1949) (20)
Animal research. I. Behavioral organization and genesis of the social bond in insects and mammals. (1961) (18)
Army-ant life and behavior under dry-season conditions with special reference to reproductive functions. II. The appearance and fate of the males (1948) (18)
A comparison of species and genera in the ant subfamily Dorylinæ with respect to functional pattern (1957) (18)
The Army Ant (1948) (16)
Social organization in insects, as related to individual function. (1941) (15)
The ATSL: An Observer-to-Computer System for a Multivariate Approach to Behavioural Study (1962) (15)
The behavior and biology of certain nearctic army ants last part of the functional season, Southeastern Arizona (1958) (13)
A preliminary survey of colony division and related processes in two species of terrestrial army ants (1956) (13)
Problems in the bio-psychology of social organization. (1946) (13)
The process and mechanism of ant learning. The combination-problem and the successive-presentation problem. (1934) (13)
The Reproductive Functions of the Armyant Queen as Pace-Makers of the Group Behavior Pattern (1944) (13)
The behaviour and biology of certain nearctic army ants: Springtime resurgence of cyclic function—Southeastern Arizona (1963) (11)
Some comparative psychology. (1933) (9)
Inter-situational transfer in the ant Formica schaufussi as tested in a two-phase single choice-point maze. (1967) (9)
Some important features of ant learing (1933) (7)
Additional studies of the phalangid fauna of Mexico. 1. American Museum novitates ; no. 1310 (1946) (7)
Emigrations and related behaviour in two surface-adapted species of the old-world doryline ant, (1969) (7)
Comparative psychology: A comprehensive treatise. Vol. II: Plants and invertebrates. (1941) (5)
The Study of Animal Behavior: Its History and Relation to the Museum. II (1958) (5)
The reproductive system of the army-ant queen, Eciton (Eciton) Part 3, The oöcyte cycle. American Museum novitates ; no. 1665 (1954) (5)
The reproductive system of the army-ant queen, Eciton (Eciton) Part 1, General anatomy. American Museum novitates ; no. 1663 (1954) (5)
Concerning the status of the starfish. (1940) (5)
Behavior and ecological notes on some ants from south-central Florida. American Museum novitates ; no. 1261 (1944) (4)
Comparative Allometry in the Larval Broods of Three Army-Ant Genera, and Differential Growth as Related to Colony Behavior (1968) (3)
A study of army-ant life and behavior under dry-season conditions with special reference to reproductive functions. 1, Southern Mexico. American Museum novitates ; no. 1336 (1947) (2)
Dermacentor dissimilis, a new species of tick from southern Mexico. American Museum novitates ; no. 1332 (1947) (2)
The appearance of nail-biting in a rat; a fixation in a frustrating problem situation. (1941) (1)
Hopping behaviour in mice of pre-weaning age (1958) (1)
A note on seasonal variation in nest-building behaviour in the domestic rabbit () (1963) (1)
"Cruel" ants—and Occam's razor. (1942) (1)
An Improved Histological Technique for Refractory Insect Brood Material in Research on Doryline Ant Behaviour (1965) (1)
The reproductive system of the army-ant queen, Eciton (Eciton) Part 2, Histology. American Museum novitates ; no. 1664 (1954) (1)
Ants and Men: Problems in the Bio‐Psychology of Social Organization (1946) (0)
Biological and behavioral aspects of sexual brood production in army ants. (1948) (0)
Postscript to "cruel ants." (1943) (0)
[Apprenticeship and the problem of conflict in ants. Comparison with rats]. (1960) (0)
Analysis of the Army-Ant Behavior Pattern: the Nature of an "Instinct": (538282011-030) (1937) (0)
A new Panama Eciton (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). American Museum novitates ; no. 1441 (1949) (0)
Best Paper of 2016: International Union for the Study of Social Insects (1954) (0)

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