Animals seem capable of an infinite variety of movement, yet also exhibit substantial stereotypy in repeated actions. A beautiful view of worm behaviour now shows that the worm’s state evolves deterministically but is bounced chaotically between unstable periodic orbits.
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Loveless, J., Webb, B. Chaotic worms. Nat. Phys. 17, 170–171 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-020-01058-2
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