Lévy flights and self-similar exploratory behaviour of termite workers: beyond model fitting.

Animal movements have been related to optimal foraging strategies where self-similar trajectories are central. Most of the experimental studies done so far have focused mainly on fitting statistical models to data in order to test for movement patterns described by power-laws. Here we show by analyz...

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Main Authors: Octavio Miramontes, Og DeSouza, Leticia Ribeiro Paiva, Alessandra Marins, Sirio Orozco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111183