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Ants ordering ants to feed

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posted on 2023-06-08, 05:58 authored by David Waxman
In a recent paper, M. Beekman and co-workers carried out experimental and theoretical investigations into the behaviour of a biological system consisting of a colony of Pharaoh's ants. By manipulating the colony, the foraging behaviour of the ants was, remarkably, shown to be capable of undergoing a transition between a disordered and an ordered state that was directly analogous to a phase transition in a physical system.

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  • Published

Journal

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

ISSN

0169-5347

Publisher

Elsevier

Issue

3

Volume

17

Page range

103-104

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  • Biology and Environmental Science Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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