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The lack of information in ant trails (beyond "it exists here") leads to death spirals https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
by viraptor 1y ago
The lack of information in ant trails (beyond "it exists here") leads to death spirals https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill
- fmbb 1y agoThe very first sentence of the article you linked says this happens because they lose the pheromone track.
- viraptor 1y agoIt does, but the original paper is not as certain. (https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/86a774f3-c264-49de-ae82-a0c86db0af86/content https://digitallibrary.amnh.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/8...) It suggests that the following is done "both chemically and tactually" in case of a circular path, although with just a minimal test.
- deadbabe 1y agoHow could they encode some kind of directional information into a trail?