Symmetry breaking in escaping ants

E Altshuler, O Ramos, Y Núñez… - The American …, 2005 - journals.uchicago.edu
… Once the ants were introduced and covered by the glass plate, we opened the exits … the
ants were able to escape. The whole process was recorded until the end of the escape activity …

Symmetry breaking on density in escaping ants: experiment and alarm pheromone model

G Li, D Huan, B Roehner, Y Xu, L Zeng, Z Di, Z Han - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
… However, density is not well-studied in symmetry breaking, … ant colony displays an increase
then decrease of symmetry … the symmetry breaking is influenced by the total number of ants, …

Heat-induced symmetry breaking in ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) escape behavior

YK Chung, CC Lin - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
… which symmetry breaking in the escaping ants was induced. … C (from 35 to 45C), symmetry
breaking occurred (χ 2 > 4.49, p < … Symmetry breaking in the escaping ants was triggered by …

Symmetry associated with symmetry break: Revisiting ants and humans escaping from multiple-exit rooms

Q Ji, C Xin, SX Tang, JP Huang - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2018 - Elsevier
… So far, the symmetry break has become a common knowledge in the … of escaping dynamics.
However, in this paper, we discover a symmetry pattern within both the panic escape of ants

How initial distribution affects symmetry breaking induced by panic in ants: experiment and flee-pheromone model

G Li, W Wang, J Lin, Z Huang, J Liang, H Wu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
… than the other when agents escaping from a closed space with two … ant groups to investigate
how initial distribution of colonies would influence symmetry breaking in collective escaping

Symmetry breaking and pivotal individuals during the reunification of ant colonies

GN Doering, SC Pratt - Journal of Experimental Biology, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
… The second goal of this study was to describe how consensus emerges from the behaviour
of individual ants in both symmetric and asymmetric … Symmetry breaking in escaping ants

Symmetry breaking in mass-recruiting ants: extent of foraging biases depends on resource quality

RIA Price, C Grüter, WOH Hughes… - Behavioral ecology and …, 2016 - Springer
… Here, we show that symmetry breaking at two food sources is influenced by resource quality
in the Pharaoh ant. When provided with food resources of unequal quality, the branches …

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Panic Escape

CS Kim, C Dib, S Oh - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.11394, 2024 - arxiv.org
… We will consider that the ants get the urge to escape at t = 0 and start moving at their
chosen speed from then on. This consideration corresponds to a model where the …

Effect of exit locations on ants escaping a two-exit room stressed with repellent

S Wang, S Cao, Q Wang, L Lian, W Song - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics …, 2016 - Elsevier
ant evacuation efficiency and the behavior of ants escaping from a two-exit room, we conducted
ant … We found that the ants demonstrated the phenomenon of “symmetry breaking” in this …

Behavior of ants escaping from a single-exit room

S Wang, W Lv, W Song - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
… These authors found that ants displayed a “symmetry breaking” phenomenon: when under
stress, they escaped from a chamber with two symmetrically located exits by using one exit …