Preliminary quantification of freely exploring Atta insularis

TL;DR

This study investigates the movement patterns of Atta insularis ants during free exploration, revealing super-diffusive behavior and a tendency to turn left more often, suggesting unique behavioral traits.

Contribution

It provides initial quantitative insights into ant exploration behavior, highlighting super-diffusivity and directional turning bias in Atta insularis.

Findings

Ants exhibit super-diffusive exploration patterns.

Ants tend to turn left more frequently than right.

Further statistics are needed to confirm these preliminary results.

Abstract

In this paper, we study the "free exploration" of individual ants of the species Atta insularis, i.e., their motion on a featureless flat, horizontal surface. Two basic preliminary results emerge from our work (a) the free exploration is super-diffusive and (b) ants tend to turn more frequently to the left than to the right -so we call them "let-handed"-. More statistics is needed, however, to confirm those findings.