Cooperative ants are more than the sum of their parts

The Company of Biologists
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Published on Nov 7, 2016

Helen McCreery explains how ants manage to cooperate to move large objects and how random movements allow them to move backwards while maintaining a consensus that is flexible and robust enough to get them out of most tight corners.

The abstract and full research paper are available at http://jeb.biologists.org/content/219....

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