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Preliminary quantification of freely exploring Atta insularis

Quantitative Methods 2016-10-31 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we study the "free exploration" of individual ants of the species Atta insularis, i.e., their motion on a featureless flat, horizontal surface. Two basic preliminary results emerge from our work (a) the free exploration is super-diffusive and (b) ants tend to turn more frequently to the left than to the right -so we call them "let-handed"-. More statistics is needed, however, to confirm those findings.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1610.09279,
  title  = {Preliminary quantification of freely exploring Atta insularis},
  author = {A. Reyes and G. Rodríguez and E. Altshuler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.09279},
  year   = {2016}
}
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