This is a special value which some primitives such as turtle, one-of, max-one-of, etc. report to indicate that no agent was found. Also, when a turtle dies, it becomes equal to nobody.
Note: Empty agentsets are not equal to nobody. If you want to test for an empty agentset, use any?. You only get nobody back in situations where you were expecting a single agent, not a whole agentset.
set target one-of other turtles-here if target != nobody [ ask target [ set color red ] ]
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