[FRIAM] Costa Rican ant colonies

[Russell Standish]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:47:34PM -0800, Hugh Trenchard wrote:
> Basically, by touch alone, and not by talking or speaking, I speculate they will eventually, after a lot of bumping and inefficient route taking, establish two smoothly flowing lines where each person touches the other in passing and will find nearly the shortest distance between the two points, even though none of them will know it! 
> 
> Obviously I could be wrong, but that is one way to test what I believe to be occurring among the ants. 
> 
> Hugh Trenchard
> 

Also one can try a computer simulation. Not as much fun, perhaps, but
easier that trying to draft a few hundred people...

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