Discovering search behaviour in black garden ant trajectories
Perrine Bonavita, Marius Albino, Jacques Gautrais A, Vincent Fourcassié, Maud Combe, Loic Lacour, Simon Eibner, Christian Jost
The paper re-analyzes ant movement data to show that black garden ants use directional information in their search behavior, leading to biased random walks that improve search efficiency.
PLoS ONE · Jul 29, 2026Peer-reviewedAnimal Behavior & Cognition