The Thoughtful Animal
Sensing Magnets: Navigation in Desert Ants
March 12th, 2012 |
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The more scientists discover about desert ants, the more impressive they seem. Decades of research have established that ants use path integration – an innate form of mental trigonometry – in order to navigate the visually featureless environments that are the salt pans of Tunisia. They do this by calibrating a mental clock based on [...]
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