Is your pizza too big for your box? How would an ant’s brain solve the problem?
Atta, a 50 million year old tropical genus of ant has over 15 species and is known for feeding on fungi grown on leaf parts. To move the leaf pieces to the nest, they build large networks of trails, and they “decide” when the maintenance of a trail is too expensive and discontinue it. How do they so...
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RBT387032023-07-11T17:33:32Z Is your pizza too big for your box? How would an ant’s brain solve the problem? Is your pizza too big for your box? How would an ant’s brain solve the problem? Monge, Julián trail maintenance leaves colony productivity pheromones Atta cephalotes trail maintenance leaves colony productivity pheromones Atta cephalotes Atta, a 50 million year old tropical genus of ant has over 15 species and is known for feeding on fungi grown on leaf parts. To move the leaf pieces to the nest, they build large networks of trails, and they “decide” when the maintenance of a trail is too expensive and discontinue it. How do they solve the problem of a leaf piece that is too big for the nest entrance? I saw some Atta cephalotes do it, and their brains may not work exactly like ours: instead of cutting the leaf in smaller parts, they enlarge the entrance. Atta, a 50 million year old tropical genus of ant has over 15 species and is known for feeding on fungi grown on leaf parts. To move the leaf pieces to the nest, they build large networks of trails, and they “decide” when the maintenance of a trail is too expensive and discontinue it. How do they solve the problem of a leaf piece that is too big for the nest entrance? I saw some Atta cephalotes do it, and their brains may not work exactly like ours: instead of cutting the leaf in smaller parts, they enlarge the entrance. Universidad de Costa Rica 2019-05-14 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/38703 Revista de Biología Tropical; Darwin In Memoriam 2019: Animal Behavior; Darwin Revista de Biología Tropical; Darwin In Memoriam 2019: Comportamiento Animal; Darwin Revista Biología Tropical; Darwin In Memoriam 2019: Animal Behavior; Darwin 2215-2075 0034-7744 eng https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/38703/39404 |
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Atta, a 50 million year old tropical genus of ant has over 15 species and is known for feeding on fungi grown on leaf parts. To move the leaf pieces to the nest, they build large networks of trails, and they “decide” when the maintenance of a trail is too expensive and discontinue it. How do they solve the problem of a leaf piece that is too big for the nest entrance? I saw some Atta cephalotes do it, and their brains may not work exactly like ours: instead of cutting the leaf in smaller parts, they enlarge the entrance. |
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