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Query: Getting a head start: the slime mold, Physarum polycephalum, tune
  foraging decision to motivational asymmetry when faced with competition   Slime mould plasmodia can adjust their behaviour in response to chemical
trails left by themselves and other Physarum plasmodia. This simple feedback
process increases their foraging efficiency. We still do not know whether other
factors influence plasmodium behaviour in realistic competition settings. Here
we designed a competition experiment where two plasmodia had to find one food
source in a common environment. As previously shown, the time it took plasmodia
to find food depended on their hunger motivation. However, the time it took a
plasmodium to start looking for food depended on its motivation and the
motivation of its competitor. Plasmodia always initiated foraging quicker if
they were in the presence of a competitor and the quickest if they were hungry
and in the presence of a satiated competitor. The time it took to arrive to the
food was not influenced by whether they were alone or with a competitor.
Ultimately, this complex competition response benefited the hungry plasmodia as
they had a 4:1 chance of finding the food first. The sensory ecology of
Physarum polycephalum is more complex than previously thought and yields
complex behaviour in a simple organism.

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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org