...from getting any pupae to rear as slaves. I then dug up the small parcel of the pupae of black ants from another nest, and put them down on a bare spot...fancied that, after all, they had been victorious in their late combat. 5. At the same time I laid on the same place a small parcel of the pupae of another...

...were prevented from getting any pupae to rear as slaves. I then dug up a small parcel of the pupae of F. fusca from another nest, and put them down on...fancied that, after all, they had been victorious in their late combat. At the same time I laid on the same place a small parcel of the pupae of another...

...unsuccessful attempt Darwin plays a prank on the slavers: "I then dug up a small parcel of the pupae of F. fusca from another nest, and put them down on...fancied that, after all, they had been victorious in their late combat" (pp. 399—400). But F. fusca was not always successful in repelling F. sanguinea:...

...were prevented from getting any pupae to rear as slaves. I then dug up a small parcel of the pupa: of F. fusca from another nest, and put them down on...combat; they were eagerly seized, and carried off by die tyrants, who perhaps fancied that, after all, they had been victorious in their late combat. At...

...approached and were vigorously repulsed by an independent community of the slave species (F. fusca); sometimes as many as three of these ants clinging...fancied that, after all, they had been victorious in their late combat. At the same time I laid on the same place a small parcel of the pupae of another...