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I find this research a bit suspicious: 1. The authors do not provide a single complete video of the experiment, only very short 5-15 seconds fragments. 2. The
by tna 11y ago
I find this research a bit suspicious:
1. The authors do not provide a single complete video of the experiment, only very short 5-15 seconds fragments.
2. The papers lack detailed experimental procedures and protocol description (compared to a typical paper from Nature on the same subject).
3. The papers are published in seemingly unrelated journals, which may not have the adequate know-how to do peer review of such experiments: Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter, etc. If the behavior described is real, it is highly notable, I would expect at least one paper published in Nature by the authors.
4. The only videos available are short fragments, where 1 ant is seen crossing a single (1) left/right branch. Why not film an entire ant path, which according to paper should last about 100-200 seconds?
https://www.youtube.com/user/reznikovazhanna/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/reznikovazhanna/videos
I also checked both author's pages:
http://boris.ryabko.net/papers.html http://boris.ryabko.net/papers.html
http://reznikova.net/Publications.html http://reznikova.net/Publications.html
Is this specific counting and communication capability independently confirmed by other research groups?