(ISNS) -- When ants are confronted with
information overload and face too many decisions -- about where to live, for
instance -- they revert to the wisdom of the crowd.
Despite having a brain smaller
than the point of a pin, one ant species uses an elaborate system of sending
out scouts to look for new homes. The scouts report back, and then the whole
colony votes, according to researchers at Arizona State University.
The ants use chemistry and
crowdsourcing, wrote associate professor of biology Stephen C. Pratt and
graduate student Takao Sasaki at Arizona State University, in the current issue
of Current Biology.
Continued: http://www.livescience.com/24568-when-ants-get-together-to-make-a-decision.html
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment
You only need to enter your comment once! Comments will appear once they have been moderated. This is so as to stop the would-be comedian who has been spamming the comments here with inane and often offensive remarks. You know who you are!