Better tired than lost: Turtle ant trail networks favor coherence over short edges.
Creating a routing backbone is a fundamental problem in both biology and engineering. The routing backbone of the trail networks of arboreal turtle ants (Cephalotes goniodontus) connects many nests and food sources using trail pheromone deposited by ants as they walk. Unlike species that forage on t...
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2021
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