Ants are central-place foragers: they always return to the nest, and this requires the ability to
remember relationships between features of the environment, or an individual's path through …

More than 100 years since the first maze designed for rodent research, researchers now
have the choice of a variety of mazes that come in many different shapes and sizes. Still old …

Foraging animals may benefit from remembering the location of a newly discovered food
patch while continuing to explore nearby [1, 2]. For example, after encountering a drop of …

Bacteria which grow not on the featureless agar plates of the microbiology lab but in the real
world must navigate topologies which are nontrivially complex, such as mazes or fractals …

In this paper, we introduce an active inference model of ant colony foraging behavior, and
implement the model in a series of in silico experiments. Active inference is a multiscale …

Social animals, and ants, in particular, exhibit a range of cooperative behaviors. One such
behavior is the rescue of group members, which cannot return to the nest by themselves …

Simple Summary Animals living in nests leave their nests to search for food and often use
constant routes. We tested how workers of ant colonies cope with pitfall traps placed on their …

Central-place foragers face high predation risk when repeatedly using routes near their nest,
as predators can learn to ambush them there. We investigated the factors influencing the …

Collective living systems regularly achieve cooperative emergent functions that individual
organisms could not accomplish alone. The rafts of fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) are often …

Maze-solving is a classical mathematical task, and is recently analogously achieved using
various eccentric media and devices, such as living tissues, chemotaxis, and memristors …