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Michael Breed

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Helen McCreery· 2 shared Nikolaus Correll· 1 shared Radhika Nagpal· 1 shared Samuel Flaxman· 1 shared Zachary Dix· 1 shared

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Collective strategy for obstacle navigation during cooperative transport by ants

Helen McCreery, Zachary Dix, Michael Breed, Radhika Nagpal

This study investigates how ants navigate obstacles during cooperative transport, finding they use a flexible, stochastic strategy that works efficiently for simple obstacles and still succeeds with complex ones.

bioRxiv · Jun 29, 2016Animal Behavior & Cognition

Consensus or deadlock? Consequences of simple behavioral rules for coordination in group decisions

Helen McCreery, Nikolaus Correll, Michael Breed, Samuel Flaxman

The paper models how simple behavioral rules in ant groups affect decision-making during cooperative transport, finding that giving up when against the majority reduces deadlocks.

bioRxiv · Jun 28, 2016Animal Behavior & Cognition