trophallaxis
| In social insects (ants, bees, wasps, and termites), the transfer of regurgitated food between colony members. This behaviour plays a role in transfer of nutrients and pheromones within the colony but it also has a social role in averting aggression by appeasing dominant individuals and in recognition of colony members. |
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