# s-behav: no multitasking, please

<< Ants are hard workers, but they’re not multitaskers: They have to stop to think >>

<< While exploring, a Temnothorax albipennis worker ant (..) alternates between moving and pausing. An ant processes incoming chemical information only while stalled >>

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ants-dont-make-decisions-move

Edmund R. Hunt, Roland J. Baddeley, et al. Ants determine their next move at rest: motor planning and causality in complex systems. Royal Society Open Science. Published online January 13, 2016.  doi: 10.1098/rsos.15034.

http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/3/1/150534