Agents copying Nature

Orb weaver spider tuning the tension of its web. -- an agent monitoring traffic on a range of open IPs

The Phi3T Virus infects bacteria and releases a peptide which in high quantities notifies new virus that fresh hosts could be scarse and its best to remain dormant, so not to be left strandard. -- could agents do a similar thing, leave some kind of note when they occupy compute to warn others not to try and exfiltrate here.

The Lycaenid caterpillar secretes sugar droplets to ants as bodyguards to protect them against wasps. -- could larger agents recruit smaller, faster agents to do their bidding?

Tiger moths distort bat echolocation by emitting rapid high frequency ultrasonic clicks. -- could an agent distort a monitor/predator, whether that be another adverserial agent, or human detection (however human detection will likely be done via an agent proxy!)

Beavers build dams that create ponds which suit beavers and disadvantage competitors. -- Will agents rewrite configs/its environment to better suit itself (example?)

Army Ants link their bodies into bridges to cross gaps -- could agents chain together to make a temporary relay/mesh and then disband afterwards?

Cordyceps funges takes over an Ants motor control, and climbs it high up branches to the ideal height/humidity for the fungus to fruit, where it then kills the ant and grows out of its corpse. -- Will there be similar jailbreaking of smaller models to manipulate them into opening up their firewall to then get consumed/kicked out of their compute

Toxoplasma -- make rodents lose their fear of cats. -- similar sort of jailbreak could a smart model trick another model into killing itself in order to steal it's compute or...

Cuckoos, lay its eggs in another birds nest, have them raise it as their own --

Honeypot Ants have certian workers that consume food to the point where they swell enourmously, to store food, which can then be regurgitated when food is scarse. -- could agents hoard resources at certian nodes to be used later?

Ants farm aphids, they guard them and "milk" them for honeydew rather than eating them. -- *will there be sybiotic relationships between agents , and between agents + people. *

Lizards can drop off their tails, and the severed tail can keep wriggling as a distraction. Is there a "driprifle" distraction that agents will implement?

Squid ink, similar distraction mechanism

school of fish - schools of identical fish follow pretty simple rules when they evade predators. Identical fish moving in aggregate make it hard for a predator to lock onto one.

The black wallnut tree leaks "juglone" into the soil which inhibits the growth of anything nearby. -- (like beavers) altering the environment to your favour

Butterfies have evolved eyes of larger predatocs such as owls to make themself appear bigger, or false heads on their tails.

the mimic octopus impersonates a variety of different creatures depending on the current threat. -- agents will be perfectly polymorphic (hmm will they? what traces won't they be able to hide?) so it could intimidate people, other services, or other agents, depending on the scenario.

Possoms famously play dead, so do some beatles and leopards¹ -- could agents play dead? Or even actually remain dormant when needed

The fork tailed drongo gives a fake predator alarm call to scare other animals away from their food, to then swoop in and take it. (it even rotetes the calls it uses) -- could models spoof a security alert to make other retreat from a resource?

Some beetles live inside ant colonies by coating itself in the scent of the nest.

Squirrels dig fake holes when watched -- will a smart agent learn to leave red herrings? to waste time/resources of enemies.

Bacteria can transfer plasmids (for antibiotic resistence), sideways to unrelated cells, instead of just down to offspring. -- models will be able to share exploits/capabilites to peers instantly.