Cooperative ants are more than the sum of their parts
Channel: The Company of Biologists
Date: 07/11/2016

Helen McCreery explains how ants manage to cooperate to move large objects and how random movements allow them to move backwards while maintaining a consensus that is flexible and robust enough to get them out of most tight corners.

The abstract and full research paper are available at http://jeb.biologists.org/content/219/21/3366.