Models for the behavior of ants and pedestrians are studied in a unified way in this paper. Each ant follows pheromone … put by preceding ants, hence creating a trail on the ground, while pedestrians also try to follow others in a crowd for … average speed of the ants on their density, which can be well analyzed by the zero-range process. We also show that this …

Innate vision-based aversions to model and mimic were investigated using a mimicry system in which the models were ants … group, the "ordinary salticids" as predators. The mimics considered belonged to another group, salticids that resemble ants … of dead arthropods (ants, ant mimics, and an array of non--ant-like species) mounted in a lifelike posture. When …

toleration of winged males. The model is applicable more generally in species that have dimorphic males, such as some other ants …

Jumping spiders (Salticidae) usually avoid ants, but some species within this family single out ants as preferred prey …, while others (especially the species in the genus Myrmarachne) are Batesian mimics of ants. Field records show that ant …

part of the study, I compared colony-level preference among eight species of ants that differ in their relative access to …

, even when the active ants organizing the move do not compare sites. This collective ability depends on a quorum rule used … by ants assessing a candidate site. Only when the site's population has surpassed a threshold do they switch from slow … recruitment of fellow active ants by tandem runs to rapid transport of the majority of the colony. Here, I show that ants perceive …