Researchers glue bar codes on to ants to study individual behavior within group (w/ video)
Friday, April 19, 2013 - 09:34
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers made up of two behavioral ecologists from the University of Lausanne and a robotics engineer from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology has developed a novel way to study the behavior of individual ants in a colony—they've glued bar codes to their backs which they scan from above. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes how their groundbreaking approach has led to new discoveries about how ants behave.