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Amateur Entomologists’ Society 2013. <URL:http://www.amentsoc.org/publications/bugclubmagazine/
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Animal diversity 2012.  <URL:http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Eciton_burchellii/>.  
        Accessed 3 November 2013.

Antwiki 2013.  <URL:http://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Eciton_burchellii>.  Accessed 20 November 2013.

BBC 2013.  <URL:http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/life/Eciton_burchellii>. Accessed 12 November 2013.

Califano, D. and Chaves-Campos, J. 2011. Effect of trail pheromones and weather on the moving behavior
        of the army ant Eciton burchellii. Insectes Sociaux 58: 309-315.

Encyclopedia of life 2013.  <URL:http://eol.org/pages/470832/overview>.  Accessed 15 November 2013.

Deneubourg, J.L, S. Goss, N. Franks, and J.M. Pasteels. 1989. The blind leading the blind: modeling
        chemically mediated army ant raid patterns. Journal of Insect Behavior 2: 719-725.

Franks, N. 1989. Army ants: a collective intelligence. American Scientist 77: 138-145.

Garnier, S, T. Murphy, M. Lutz, E. Hurme, S. Leblanc, and I.D. Couzin. 2013. Stability and responsiveness in
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Hymenoptera 1994.  <URL:http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda/uniramia/hymenoptera.html>.  
        Accessed 21 November 2013.

Kumar, A. and O’Donnell, S. 2007. Fragmentation and elevation effects on bird-army ant interactions in
        neotropical montane forest of Costa Rica. Journal of Tropical Ecology 23: 581-590.

Meisel, J. 2006. Thermal ecology of the neotropical army ant eciton burchellii. Ecological Applications 16:
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Pawnation 2012.  <URL:http://animals.pawnation.com/adaptations-army-ants-8496.html>.  
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Smith, A.A. and Haight, K.L. 2008. Army ants as research and collection tools. Journal of Insect Science,
        School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America 8: 1-5.

Tree of Life Web Project 2004. <URL:http://tolweb.org/Eciton/22637/2004.10.21> Accessed 6 November
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Wildscreen 2013.  <URL:http://www.arkive.org/army-ant/eciton-burchellii/>.  
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Special thanks to Alex Wild for the encouragement of students to use his pictures for educational purposes.

Other relevant websites and articles you should consider looking into:
-http://www.alexanderwild.com (for amazing illustrations and pictures of Army Ants)

-http://www.jstor.org/stable/27855654?seq=8 (An article by Nigel R. Franks that compares the Army Ant navigational process to that of neural network)

-http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Eciton_burchellii/ (A page by the University of Michigan dedicated to everyting Eciton Burchellii.  It's very well organized and has a lot of useful information)

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