• DOI:10.1086/498139
Corpus ID: 7250726

Symmetry Breaking in Escaping Ants

@article{Altshuler2005SymmetryBI,
  title={Symmetry Breaking in Escaping Ants},
  author={E. Altshuler and O. Ramos and Y. N{\'u}{\~n}ez and J. Fern{\'a}ndez and A. J. Batista-Leyva and C. Noda},
  journal={The American Naturalist},
  year={2005},
  volume={166},
  pages={643 - 649}
}

E. Altshuler, O. Ramos, +3 authors C. Noda

Published 2005

Physics, Medicine

The American Naturalist

The phenomenon of herding is a very general feature of the collective behavior of many species in panic conditions, including humans. It has been predicted theoretically that panic‐induced herding in individuals confined to a room can produce a nonsymmetrical use of two identical exit doors. Here we demonstrate the existence of that phenomenon in experiments, using ants as a model of pedestrians. We show that ants confined to a cell with two symmetrically located exits use both exits in… CONTINUE READING

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