Re: BBC News - Ant colony 'personalities' shaped by environment

Posted by Eric Charles-2 on Aug 15, 2014; 1:25pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/BBC-News-Ant-colony-personalities-shaped-by-environment-tp7585564p7585578.html

Weird that they want to call it "personality" instead of more simply saying that ant colonies seem to adapt to their local environment. Of course, the flashiness of the claim is the only reason it is being covered on the BBC, so I guess it isn't that weird after all.

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On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Gillian Densmore <[hidden email]> wrote:

A few swarm inteligence from the 90s described that.  Scott Kelly's "Fast Cheap and Out of Controll"  touched on that. In his case they knew ants (and often uncles) could pass around experience- and displayed something simillar to hummans sense of experience they didn't have a explination. Then again his forray into science was from the 90s.

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Tom Johnson <[hidden email]> wrote:

So who is going to integrate this into the sugar model?

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-28658268

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