Female Wasps get the better deals
According to scientists, wasps have exchange buddies and compete for the best trade agreements. Female wasps have the first choice of cooperative partners. Dominant wasps even negotiate hours with the workers to guarantee they can spend time in their nests. A study looked at wasps across multiple nests monitoring how they apply the economic rule of supply and demand. Scientists discovered assistant or helper wasps provide less help to their own dominant breeders when other nesting options are available. The dominant wasps then compete to give the assistant wasps a better deal, by allowing them to work less hard, to ensure they stay in their particular nest. By changing the wasps’ surrounding social environment there is a strong effect on cooperative behavior. Within the wasp environment a bad deal is better than no deal. Trade agreements in nature with a larger number of trading partners available was shown that they could negotiate better trade deals.
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