Ben Reich & Deborah Richards

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Underlying Rules of Ant Foraging Behavior

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1. Ants initially wander randomly, searching for food.

2. When an ant finds food, it lays a pheremone trail as it returns to its nest, the scent of which diminishes gradually over time.

3. When other ants smell the pheremone trail, they stop wandering randomly, and follow the pheremone trail to food.

4. If more food remains at the end of the pheremone trail, the pheremone trail is reinforced as ants return to their nest.

5. More ants will successfully follow a shorter pheremone trail to its end and find food, because trail can be reinforced before the initial trail scent disappears, and this route will contine to be used.

6. Through this process, optimum routes to food supplies emerge from the random wandering and scent following behavior of inidividual ants.

Emergent Weaving

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