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**QQ9ktYrV** · 09-02-2012, 02:08 PM

Not sure if this is related or not. I recently read an article about harvester ants behaving like TCP/IP (the way computers connect and transfer data over the Internet).

We all know that ants are amazing biological creations, but it was only recently that researchers discovered that a certain breed of harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) behave in a way that is not dissimilar from the way Internet protocols discover how much bandwidth is available for data transfer.
They're calling it the 'Anternet'.

from http://www.pcworld.com/article/26151..._about_it.html

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09-02-2012, 02:08 PM	#22
QQ9ktYrV Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 446 Senior Member	Not sure if this is related or not. I recently read an article about harvester ants behaving like TCP/IP (the way computers connect and transfer data over the Internet). We all know that ants are amazing biological creations, but it was only recently that researchers discovered that a certain breed of harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) behave in a way that is not dissimilar from the way Internet protocols discover how much bandwidth is available for data transfer. They're calling it the 'Anternet'. from http://www.pcworld.com/article/26151..._about_it.html anaLoG
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