Deborah Gordon’s [3] work on red harvester ants may also be of interest to the HN community:
> In 2012, she found that the foraging behavior of red harvester ants matches the TCP congestion control algorithm.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_to_a_Young_Scientist
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_M._Gordon