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An Australian desert ant deciding which way is home.
When displaced from their regular routes, workers of the Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti rotate on the spot, producing visual scans of the world, before setting off in a seemingly purposeful manner. In this image a worker with her prized cookie crumb is photographed on a goniometer that is used to record her directional choice. (See Baddeley et al., doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002336)
Image Credit: Antoine Wystrach (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
Citation: (2012) PLoS Computational Biology Issue Image | Vol. 8(1) January 2012. PLoS Comput Biol 8(1): ev08.i01. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pcbi.v08.i01
Published: January 26, 2012
Copyright: © 2012 Wystrach. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
When displaced from their regular routes, workers of the Australian desert ant Melophorus bagoti rotate on the spot, producing visual scans of the world, before setting off in a seemingly purposeful manner. In this image a worker with her prized cookie crumb is photographed on a goniometer that is used to record her directional choice. (See Baddeley et al., doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002336)
Image Credit: Antoine Wystrach (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)