10 Kasım 2014 Pazartesi
worth to visit
I like traveling very much. If I have no money or time, I am traveling on mapping websites. :) I find lots of amazing places, but not share them with anybody. It's kind of time wasting. So I decided to share them. Here is the places that I found worth to visit:
22 Kasım 2009 Pazar
The Interesting Path Determination of Ants
When i was living in the dormitory as a student of the university, i observed an interesting scene about ants trying to carry foods to their nest. There were 1 nest entrance and 2 food sources. So the path drawn by ants carrying food was like a fork with 2 teeth.
When i was drinking my tea sitting on the bench in garden, i observed the ants movings on the way of food supply. They were walking on a road like single lane. They didnt think about moving on a broader way. What was the reason of this? After careful observation, i saw that all ants needed touching their antennas eachother once, to determine the next path!
It was the reason of one way traffic. A "coming ant" says to "going ant" where he comes from, and the going ant does the same thing to coming ant. So they decide where they continue walking within the next few steps.
There was also a scene proving my idea. I said that there were 2 food sources. I observed on the forking point of paths, and waited 2 ants coming from diffirent food sources to meet that point. And BINGOO! A pair of ants coming from different food sources met on the forking point, and they exchanged their "knowledge of paths they come from", then they changed their way between eachother. :) So they went to other food sources carrying their heavy foods, unnecessarily. Perhaps they would understand that they were on the wrong way when they reached the food source. What a pity! :)
So, we can make a conclusion. Does an ant only know the path he comes from? :)
When i was drinking my tea sitting on the bench in garden, i observed the ants movings on the way of food supply. They were walking on a road like single lane. They didnt think about moving on a broader way. What was the reason of this? After careful observation, i saw that all ants needed touching their antennas eachother once, to determine the next path!
It was the reason of one way traffic. A "coming ant" says to "going ant" where he comes from, and the going ant does the same thing to coming ant. So they decide where they continue walking within the next few steps.
There was also a scene proving my idea. I said that there were 2 food sources. I observed on the forking point of paths, and waited 2 ants coming from diffirent food sources to meet that point. And BINGOO! A pair of ants coming from different food sources met on the forking point, and they exchanged their "knowledge of paths they come from", then they changed their way between eachother. :) So they went to other food sources carrying their heavy foods, unnecessarily. Perhaps they would understand that they were on the wrong way when they reached the food source. What a pity! :)
So, we can make a conclusion. Does an ant only know the path he comes from? :)
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