Bi-stability in cooperative transport by ants in the presence of obstacles.

To cooperatively carry large food items to the nest, individual ants conform their efforts and coordinate their motion. Throughout this expedition, collective motion is driven both by internal interactions between the carrying ants and a response to newly arrived informed ants that orient the cargo...

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Main Authors: Jonathan E Ron, Itai Pinkoviezky, Ehud Fonio, Ofer Feinerman, Nir S Gov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-05-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5944914?pdf=render