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The exploration simulation in Fig. 2 is repeated here but for an environment decomposed into four areas connected by bottlenecks. Each area consisted of 50 × 50 states. Simulation parameters were unchanged from Fig. 2 (Methods). e, Error bands ± s.e.m. for n = 20 trajectories.