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Additionally, a tiered hunting strategy categorizes wolves into elite wolves characterized by lower fitness that besiege the leader wolf to inherit its information, and exploration wolves distinguished by higher fitness that are dually guided by the leader and elite wolves, thereby suppressing aggregation while maintaining diversity and convergence. 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