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    Sometimes self-organizing social systems just end in a circle jerk

    via andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

    An ant mill is a phenomenon where a small group of army ants separated from the main foraging party lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. The ants will eventually die of exhaustion. This has been reproduced in laboratories and the behaviour has also been produced in ant colony simulations. This phenomenon is a side effect of the self-organizing structure of ant colonies.

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    • 18 September 2010
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