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What is dulosis?

What is dulosis? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (entomology) process by which parasitic ants steal pupae from the nests of other ants and raise them in their own nest, so that they become part of the colony and perform tasks in it.
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Their attack on the pet class is presented as an example of dulosis.
This parasitic relationship in which workers of a parasitic ant species capture brood from other colonies and rear them as enslaved nestmates is referred to as dulosis.

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