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Ants combine systematic meandering and correlated random walks when searching for unknown resources

Animal search movements are typically assumed to be mostly random walks, although non-random elements may be widespread. We tracked ants (Temnothorax rugatulus) in a large empty arena, resulting in almost 5 km of trajectories. We tested for meandering by comparing the turn autocorrelations for empir...

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Autores principales: Popp, Stefan, Dornhaus, Anna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9971824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36866038
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105916