Study shows desert ants use ‘optic flow’ to navigate
Joelle Harms
A study published Sept. 8 in Science magazine reveals that Sahara desert ants (Cataglyphis bicolor) can navigate to and from their colonies with solely their vision, not just by counting steps to calculate how much distance they’ve traveled. Scientists say the Saharan ants use “optic flow,” which is the apparent visual motion that you experience […]
