If you're interested in bees this is an interesting article.
As bees gain foraging experience they continually refine both the order in which they visit flowers and the flight paths they take between flowers to generate better and better routes, according to researchers.
I thought this was intriguing:
Animals that travel between multiple destinations and return to a home base -- like bees, birds, primates and humans -- face a predicament known to mathematicians as the Travelling Salesman Problem. The challenge is to find a route that visits each destination while travelling the shortest possible distance. Previous research, looking only at the order in which animals arrive at each destination, has shown that animals often find a good, or even optimal, solution but little is known about how they find that solution.
If you're interested in bees this is an interesting article.
`As bees gain foraging experience they continually refine both the order in which they visit flowers and the flight paths they take between flowers to generate better and better routes, according to researchers.`
I thought this was intriguing:
`Animals that travel between multiple destinations and return to a home base -- like bees, birds, primates and humans -- face a predicament known to mathematicians as the Travelling Salesman Problem. The challenge is to find a route that visits each destination while travelling the shortest possible distance. Previous research, looking only at the order in which animals arrive at each destination, has shown that animals often find a good, or even optimal, solution but little is known about how they find that solution.`
If you're interested in bees this is an interesting article.
As bees gain foraging experience they continually refine both the order in which they visit flowers and the flight paths they take between flowers to generate better and better routes, according to researchers.I thought this was intriguing:
Animals that travel between multiple destinations and return to a home base -- like bees, birds, primates and humans -- face a predicament known to mathematicians as the Travelling Salesman Problem. The challenge is to find a route that visits each destination while travelling the shortest possible distance. Previous research, looking only at the order in which animals arrive at each destination, has shown that animals often find a good, or even optimal, solution but little is known about how they find that solution.