How ants navigate homeward: Forward, backward, or sideward
Thursday, January 19, 2017 - 14:01
in Biology & Nature
Ants can get their bearings whatever the orientation of their body, new research shows. Their brains may be smaller than the head of a pin, but ants are excellent navigators that use celestial and terrestrial cues to memorize their paths. To do so, they use several regions of the brain simultaneously, proving once again that the brain of insects is more complex than thought.