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Which insects operate on principles similar to those of the TCP/IP protocol?

Scientists at Stanford University have discovered similarities between the food-gathering principles of red harvester ants and the TCP/IP protocol algorithms that underlie the Internet.

Information between two points on the network is sent in the form of small packets, and when they arrive at the second point, an acknowledgment of receipt is sent to the first point. If confirmations arrive quickly, the number of packets sent from the first point increases, and vice versa.

A similar principle is observed in ants: the more foragers with food return from any region, the more new workers leave the anthill there. Ants have also found other parallels with TCP/IP algorithms, such as “slow start” and “timeout”.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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