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I’ve always known ants were intelligent, but this is blowing my mind.
In my head, I was just thinking “a whole bunch of different ants brute-forcing it until it works isn’t intelligence.” Then I saw the video where they’re actively rotating it after it isn’t going in and realized, holy shit, I’d still be trying to push it.
These guys mastered pivoting. Next time I’m moving my sofa, I know who I’m gonna call.
What was the impetus that drove the ants to move it from one side to the other?
Amazing. “Something” is definitely aware of rotation, “fits”/shapes and taking a step back from a local minimum to move forward. Seeing them all done together is even more impressive. What else are “they” aware of and…how many do you need to have this team spatial awareness? 100?
Love the videos of the humans solving the puzzle. Let’s see an octopus next!
I am an ant, I knew it
How do you coerce ants to solve puzzles?
Isn’t this just brute force? Liek trying random directions until one works?
