Collective decision making through food recruitment

@article{Beckers1990CollectiveDM,
  title={Collective decision making through food recruitment},
  author={Ralph Beckers and J. L. Deneubourg and Simon Goss and Jacques M. Pasteels},
  journal={Insectes Sociaux},
  year={1990},
  volume={37},
  pages={258-267},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:8263910}
}
A series of experiments shows how the andLasius niger uses its trail recruitment system to select between two food sources, simultaneously presented with to 1M sucrose solution and when offered a 1M solution together with a 0.1M solution.
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