Nest Relocation and Colony Founding in the Australian Desert Ant, Melophorus bagoti Lubbock (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Patrick Schultheiss, Sebastian Schwarz, Antoine Wystrach

“…Nest relocation is possibly aided by trail laying behaviour, which is highly unusual for solitary foraging desert ants. Reproduction occurs in synchronised mating flights, which are probably triggered by rain. …”
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Modelling fungal colonies and communities: challenges and opportunities by R.E. Falconer, J.L. Bown, E. McAdam, P. Perez-Reche, A.T. Sampson, J. van den Bulcke, N.A. White

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Natural History of the Ant Pheidole desertorum Wheeler in a Desert Grassland Habitat by Ken R. Helms

“…Both minor and major workers forage, although foraging by majors appears to occur primarily when food is abundant. …”
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Enhancing Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm with Self-Adaptive Searching Strategy and Artificial Immune Network Operators for Global Optimization by Tinggui Chen, Renbin Xiao

“…Artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm, inspired by the intelligent foraging behavior of honey bees, was proposed by Karaboga. …”
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Prevalence of Stylopization of Sphex ichneumoneus (L.) (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) by Paraxenos westwoodi (Templeton) (Strepsiptera: Xenidae) by Richard S. Miller, April M. Pearce, Kevin M. O'Neill

“….), which were collected while they were foraging for nectar. Over a two-year period, 25% of males and 7% of female wasps were stylopized, as evidenced by the presence of puparia and empty puparial cases of male and female P. westwoodi exserted dorsally between abdominal segments. …”
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Backtracking Search Optimization Algorithm for Synthesis of Concentric Circular Antenna Arrays by K. Guney, A. Durmus, S. Basbug

“…BSA is also compared with differential search (DS) and bacterial foraging algorithms (BFA) in terms of iterative performances.…”
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Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for Solving Optimal Power Flow Problem by Luong Le Dinh, Dieu Vo Ngoc, Pandian Vasant

“…The ABC algorithm is an optimization method inspired from the foraging behavior of honey bees. The proposed algorithm has been tested on the IEEE 30-bus, 57-bus, and 118-bus systems. …”
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The City as Escape Room: Place, Participation, Meaning, and Affect by Roy Hanney

“…By mirroring the practice of urban foraging, the discussion explores transmedia storytelling as a form of sympoiesis that brings into being a shared memory, a becoming-with the city for the community that resides within. …”
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Self-Adaptive Firefly-Algorithm-Based Unified Power Flow Controller Placement with Single Objectives by Selvarasu Ranganathan, S. Rajkumar

“…IEEE 14, 30, and 57 test systems are selected to accomplish the simulations and to reveal the efficacy of the proposed SAFA approach; besides, solutions are compared with two other algorithms solutions of honey bee algorithm (HBA) and bacterial foraging algorithm (BFA). The proposed SAFA contributes real power loss reduction, voltage profile improvement, and voltage stability enhancement by optimally choosing the placement for UPFC.…”
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Methods of Developing User-Friendly Keys to Identify Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas L.) from Photographs by Jane R. Lloyd, Miguel Á. Maldonado, Richard Stafford

“…We produce identification keys from photographs of green sea turtles to identify them while foraging in Akumal Bay, Mexico. We create three keys, which (a) minimise the length of the key, (b) present the most obvious differential characteristics first, and (c) remove the strict dichotomy from key b. …”
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A security detection approach based on autonomy-oriented user sensor in social recommendation network by Shanshan Wan, Ying Liu

“…Shilling attackers can change the recommendations by foraging user relationships. Most shilling attack detection approaches depend on the explicit user historical data to locate shilling attackers. …”
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Waggle Dances and Azimuthal Windows by O. Duangphakdee, S. E. Radloff, C. W. W. Pirk, H. R. Hepburn

“…We review experiments and observations on both foraging and absconding in relation to the azimuth. …”
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Minimal age-related variation in bipedal behavior in Sapajus by Kristin A. Wright, Dorothy M. Fragaszy

“…Bipedal postures were used predominantly during feeding and foraging, most often in arboreal settings, and most often with their prehensile tail grasping, or in contact with, the substrate. …”
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Kin Competition Drives the Evolution of Earlier Metamorphosis by Bing Dong, Andy Gardner

“…Here we develop a mathematical model to investigate how kin selection shapes the optimal timing of metamorphosis from foraging, non‐reproductive larva to reproductive adult, when larvae tend to cluster with their genetic relatives. …”
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Postfire Burnt-Wood Management Affects Plant Damage by Ungulate Herbivores by Jorge Castro

“…In any case, there was an overall reduction in the risk of herbivory in the PCL treatment, presumably because the highest habitat complexity in this treatment hampered ungulate movement and foraging. As a result, the burnt logs and branches spread over the ground acted as a physical barrier that protected seedlings from herbivores. …”
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Improvement of Dung Beetle Optimization Algorithm Application to Robot Path Planning by Kezhen Liu, Yongqiang Dai, Huan Liu

“…Additionally, we employed a dynamic spiral search strategy during the reproduction phase and an adaptive t-distribution perturbation strategy during the foraging phase to enhance global search efficiency and the capability of escaping local optima. …”
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Study on Cold Chain Transportation Model of Fruit and Vegetable Fresh-Keeping in Low-Temperature Cold Storage Environment by Xiaolong Jiao, Wen Xu, Lintong Duan

“…The experimental results show that compared with the methods based on ALNS, genetic algorithm, and quantum bacterial foraging optimization algorithm, the research method can bring the best comprehensive benefit by accomplishing the fruit and vegetable transportation task in the shortest time at the lowest cost, and the research goal is thus achieved.…”
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Fuzzy Rules for Ant Based Clustering Algorithm by Amira Hamdi, Nicolas Monmarché, Mohamed Slimane, Adel M. Alimi

“…Our proposed approach, called F-ASClass algorithm, is a distributed algorithm inspired by foraging behavior observed in ant colonyT. The ability of ants to find the shortest path forms the basis of our proposed approach. …”
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A hybrid Harris Hawks Optimization with Support Vector Regression for air quality forecasting by Essam H. Houssein, Meran Mohamed, Eman M. G. Younis, Waleed M. Mohamed

“…Additionally, we contrast our methodology with recently created models that have been published in the literature, such as the Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO), Salp Swarm Algorithm (SSA), Henry Gas Solubility Optimization (HGSO), Barnacles Mating Optimizer (BMO), Whale Optimization Algorithm (WOA), and Manta Ray Foraging Optimization (MRFO). In particular, the proposed HHO-SVR model outperforms other approaches, establishing it as the optimal model based on its superior results.…”
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Switching escape strategies in the parasitic ant cricket Myrmecophilus tetramorii by Ryoya Tanaka, Yuki Mitaka, Daigo Takemoto, Mitsuhiko P. Sato, Azusa Kamikouchi, Yoshinori Suzuki

“…Furthermore, our simulations proposed that dodging contributes to efficient foraging while avoiding ants. These results demonstrate that switching to a host-adapted escape strategy facilitates integration of this parasitic cricket into ant nests.…”
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