Dung beetles found to use celestial chromatic gradient to navigate
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 - 08:00
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with Lund University in Sweden and the University of Witwatersrand, in South Africa has found evidence that suggests that dung beetles use elements of the celestial chromatic gradient to navigate as they push balls of dung in a near straight line. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, the team describes an artificial environment they set up in their lab to test the navigational abilities of dung beetles and what they learned by doing so.