ミツバチの集団的意思決定と認知

P Kirk Visscher¹, Scott Camazine²

¹Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, USAe-mail: visscher@citrus.ucr.edu.

Nature

|April 19, 2018

まとめ

ミツバチの群れは集団的な意思決定を行い最適な巣の場所を選びますこの蜂群の知性は個々のハチから生まれますグローバルな比較ではなく局所的な情報に基づいた単純なルールに従います

科学分野:

行動エコロジー
コレクティブインテリジェンス
動物の行動

背景:

ミツバチの群れ (アピス・メリフェラ) は,コロニーが繁殖するとき,新しい巣の場所を選ばなければならない.
スカウトミツバチは巣を作る場所を探索し踊りながら他のミツバチを招集します
社会的昆虫の意思決定プロセスの理解は生態学研究において極めて重要です

研究の目的:

ミツバチの群れが複数の選択肢から単一の高品質の巣の場所を選択するメカニズムを調べる
集団の意思決定はグローバルな情報か局所的な相互作用に依存しているかを判断する

主な方法:

巣作りの際のミツバチ群の観察研究
スカウト蜂の勧誘行動 (ワグルダンス) の分析
社会的昆虫の集団的意思決定をモデル化しています

主要な成果:

スカウトミツバチは最初,複数の潜在的な巣の場所に関する情報を伝達します.
時間が経つにつれダンスは質の高い場所に収束し成功したコンセンサスを示します
集団の意思決定は個人の間の局所的な相互作用によって引き起こされる自己組織化されたプロセスから生じます

結論:

ミツバチの巣の場所の選択は自己組織的なプロセスです
個々のミツバチは地域の情報と単純なルールを用いて集団的意思決定に貢献します
直接比較せずに最適な巣の場所の効率的な選択を可能にします.

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