他解释说：“如果蚁群已经找到了一种可靠的方法来确定蚁巢和食物源之间的最佳路线，那么公司经理们就会想，为什么不利用这种知识呢？”

He explains, "If ant colonies had worked out a reliable way to identify the best routes between their nest and food sources, the company managers figured, why not take advantage of that knowledge?"

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不同的食物源有不同的好处。

Different food source had different benefits.

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其他蚂蚁闻到这种气味，一路找下去就可以发现同一食物源。

Other ants sniff the chemical trail and follow it toward that same food source.

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But if you throw off the environment, in this case, the animal's biology, it's drive for certain nutrients is in concert with the food it has access to.

如果让它们换个环境,这种情况下,这些动物的生理特性,即它们有多少动力去获取某些营养元素,是与其食物源状态有关的

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