Ants engaged in cooperative food transport show anticipatory and nest-oriented clearing of the obstacles surrounding the food: goal-directed behavior emerging from collective cognition

One of the hallmarks of higher cognition is the ability to anticipate near-future events and effectively react to them. This requires perceiving events in a dynamic environment and adjusting the actions accordingly to suit the expected outcomes. Social insects exhibit various forms of emergent colle...

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Main Authors: Ehud Fonio, Danielle Mersch, Ofer Feinerman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2025-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2025.1533372/full
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