Bees do not use nearest-neighbour rules for optimization of multi-location routes

Animals collecting patchily distributed resources are faced with complex multi-location routing problems. Rather than comparing all possible routes, they often find reasonably short solutions by simply moving to the nearest unvisited resources when foraging. Here, we report the travel optimization p...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lihoreau, Mathieu, Chittka, Lars, Le Comber, Steven C., Raine, Nigel E.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3259973/