About the Authors

Pierre Broly

pierre.broly@icl-lille.fr

Affiliations Unité d’Ecologie Sociale, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus de la Plaine, Bruxelles, Belgium, Laboratoire Ecologie et Biodiversité, Faculté de Gestion, Economie & Science, UCLILLE, Université Lille Nord de France, Lille, France

Jean-Louis Deneubourg

Affiliation Unité d’Ecologie Sociale, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus de la Plaine, Bruxelles, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PB JLD. Performed the experiments: PB. Analyzed the data: PB JLD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PB JLD. Wrote the paper: PB JLD.