Ants seem surprisingly adept at controlling traffic congestion, of the worker ant variety that is, within their colony.
Collective intelligence expert Dirk Helbing from the Dresden University of Technology in Germany and his team investigated how ants move around their colony. They set up an ant highway with two routes of different widths from the nest [...]
If ants were town planners would roads be congested?
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