The amount of food that foragers carry perfectly matches the colony’s total hunger. How do they figure this? Individually, they are not smart enough. Scientists have puzzled over this question for some time. According to a new study from researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, the answer might be in the way other ants eat the food the foragers carry.
Feeding a colony requires an ant to calculate things that it isn’t smart enough to do by itself.
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