Exploration adjustment by ant colonies.

But how is this collective pattern obtained? Is this reduction in the collective search effort just a result of a decrease in the number of active scouts? Or are individuals actually adjusting their search behaviour in accordance with their current housing conditions? Even though both the total path length and total exploration time decreased significantly in better housing conditions, the path length and duration of individual bouts showed a trend in the opposite direction: bout path length and bout duration increased significantly with current nest value, though the effect was rather weak for bout path length.

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Distribution of work within bouts Even though the total path length and total exploration time decreased significantly with better housing conditions, the path length and duration of individual bouts showed a significant trend in the opposite direction.

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The same was true for total exploration time though the cubic trend there was marginally non-significant ( table 1 ).

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