{"id":215856,"date":"2025-06-13T06:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/swarm-intelligence-directs-longhorn-crazy-ants-to-clear-the-road-ahead-for-sisters-carrying-bulky-food"},"modified":"2025-06-13T06:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:25:09","slug":"swarm-intelligence-directs-longhorn-crazy-ants-to-clear-the-road-ahead-for-sisters-carrying-bulky-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/swarm-intelligence-directs-longhorn-crazy-ants-to-clear-the-road-ahead-for-sisters-carrying-bulky-food","title":{"rendered":"Swarm intelligence directs longhorn crazy ants to clear the road ahead for sisters carrying bulky food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/swarm-intelligence-directs-longhorn-crazy-ants-to-clear-the-road-ahead-for-sisters-carrying-bulky-food2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among the tens of thousands of ant species, incredible \u201cintelligent\u201d behaviors like crop culture, animal husbandry, surgery, \u201cpiracy,\u201d social distancing, and complex architecture have evolved.<\/p>\n<p>Yet at first sight, the brain of an ant seems hardly capable of such feats: it is about the size of a poppy seed, with only 0.25m to 1m neurons, compared to 86bn for humans.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers from Israel and Switzerland have shown how \u201cswarm intelligence\u201d resembling advance planning can nevertheless emerge from the concerted operation of many of these tiny brains. The results are published in <i>Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the tens of thousands of ant species, incredible \u201cintelligent\u201d behaviors like crop culture, animal husbandry, surgery, \u201cpiracy,\u201d social distancing, and complex architecture have evolved. Yet at first sight, the brain of an ant seems hardly capable of such feats: it is about the size of a poppy seed, with only 0.25m to 1m neurons, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}