Traffic-like collective movements are observed at almost all levels of biological systems.
Molecular motor proteins like, for example, kinesin and dynein, which are the vehicles of …

Publisher Summary This chapter compares collective decisions in hives and in ant nests by
relating the properties of recruiting signals to the foraging strategies displayed by these two …

Schools of fish, flocks of birds, and swarms of insects are examples of three-dimensional
aggregation. Covering both invertebrate and vertebrate species, the authors investigate this …

Teams with up to 12 real robots were given the mission to maintain the energy stocked in
their nest by collecting food-items. To achieve this mission efficiently, we implemented a …

We studied the formation of trail patterns by Argentine ants exploring an empty arena. Using
a novel imaging and analysis technique we estimated pheromone concentrations at all …

A model of food recruitment by social insects accounting for the competition between trails in
the presence of an arbitrary number of sources is developed and analysed in detail. Both the …

The Ecology of Forest Elephant Distribution and its implications for conservation Page 1 The
Ecology of Forest Elephant Distribution and its Implications for Conservation Stephen Blake A …

Collective animal behaviour is the study of how interactions between individuals produce
group level patterns, and why these interactions have evolved. This study has proved itself …

Tropical forests are among the most heterogeneous environments on earth, and food
resources for many animals are patchy both in time and space. In Africa's equatorial forest …

Motivated by recent experimental work of Burd et al., we propose a model of bi-directional
ant traffic on pre-existing ant trails. It captures in a simple way some of the generic collective …