Animal Behavior & CognitionbioRxivPreprint
Clearing the way to the external world: do ants make optimal decisions when removing obstacles from their subterranean galleries?
Louis E. Devers, Clémentine Cléradin, Zoé Bescond-Michel…·Vincent Fourcassié
The paper studies whether ants make optimal decisions when removing obstacles from their tunnels, finding that individuals act optimally but colonies show suboptimal behavior due to task sequencing.
DOI 10.1101/2023.05.12.540516