Take a musty Cheerio . impart a squad of longhorn brainsick ants and … suddenly you no longer have a moldy Cheerio . So how do they deal to make off with it so efficiently give they ’re notoriously disorganized ?
In fact , that ’s precisely what a paperjust published in Nature Communicationsset out to reveal . These finicky emmet get their name by moving unpredictably , which is n’t much manipulation for get a large clod of food home in a hurry . By shoot the ants in natural process , though , researchers have establish that the team carrying the food give up a fellow member to lead them home — a sort of navigator . But , unsurprisingly , that ant can often move unpredictably , too — so another is visit upon to lead the first . And so on , one assume , depending on the distance of the journeying .
[ Nature CommunicationsviaWired UK ]
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