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"FLYNET (Micro and Nano Aerial Vehicle Networks for Civilian Use) aims at discovering novel methods to turn micro and nano aerial vehicle (MAV and NAV) systems for civilian use into a reality by targeting the unsolved original topic of multi-hop aerial networking in fleets." https://lnkd.in/eJVn6x4 View in LinkedIn

MIXED SWARMS. Heterogeneous multi-agent mixed swarms of bots, humans and dogs "working in cooperation to solve distributed tasks that require a wide diversity of sensory-motor and cognitive skills." Each component has a high level of autonomy but cooperate synergistically. http://www.swarmix.org/ View in LinkedIn

VANESSA CARDIU. "The whole journey is not undertaken by individual butterflies but is a series of steps by up to six successive generations so Painted Ladies returning to Africa in the autumn are several generations removed from their ancestors who left Africa earlier in the year." Six successive generations to complete this migration in one summer, leapfrogging generationally over space and time. https://lnkd.in/dbZX3Du View in LinkedIn

UNLIKELY CANDIDATE. "The extent of the annual journey undertaken by the Painted Lady butterfly is astonishing. This tiny creature weighing less than a gram with a brain the size of a pin head and no opportunity to learn from older, experienced individuals, undertakes an epic intercontinental migration in order to find plants for its caterpillars to eat." https://lnkd.in/dbZX3Du View in LinkedIn

PAINTED LADY BUTTERFLY MIGRATION. "The findings also revealed that the species undertakes a phenomenal 9,000 mile round trip from tropical Africa to the Arctic Circle – almost double the length of the famous migrations undertaken by Monarch butterflies in North America." A record holder. https://lnkd.in/dbZX3Du View in LinkedIn

GENETIC BASIS SUSPECTED. "Several lines of evidence, including quantitative genetic analyses and experimental approaches, suggest that this variation may be partially genetically determined, derived from standing genetic variation and controlled by a few genes of large effect; experimental approaches include displacement; and common gardens." https://lnkd.in/dWFycUQ View in LinkedIn

VARIABLE ROUTES. "Considerable variation has been documented in the orientation of migratory routes (e.g., across years for individual wood thrushes; within populations of humpback whales; and between populations of monarch butterflies." https://lnkd.in/dWFycUQ View in LinkedIn

MIGRATIONS of birds, Monarch butterflies, Painted Lady butterflies, hummingbirds, salmon, wildebeest, whales, and other creatures almost always requires that the journey map and final destination coordinates are somehow passed to the next generation without social learning, and passed inheritable from one generation to another, often with extreme specificity for locations. https://lnkd.in/djNBZc5 View in LinkedIn

MIGRATIONAL PLASTICITY. "A strong evolutionary reduction of migratory activity has been observed in a blackcap population, presumably in response to climate change. These results suggest that the evolution of migratory behaviour in a resident population or of residency in a migratory population may be a common and rapid process." http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2011/02/11/rspb.2010.2567 View in LinkedIn

SONG OF DARWIN. "The more I study nature, the more I become impressed […] that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations [acquired through natural selection] transcend in an incomparable degree [those] which the most fertile imagination of the most imaginative man could suggest with unlimited time at his disposal." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982214003881 View in LinkedIn