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April 23, 2013 02:49 pm PDT
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Chipping ants to understandcolonies
University of Lausanne biologists chipped hundreds of ants and digitally tracked them to see how they form social groups and work collectively to get stuff done. Based on the data, they created heat maps and visualized the ants' trajectories. From Nature: The biologists have found that the workers fall into three social groups that perform [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/OpvleN_1PX4/story01.htm
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