Study shows Australian jack jumper ants navigate using landmarks
Wednesday, June 26, 2013 - 11:30
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) —A trio of researchers from The Australian National University has found that solitary foraging jack jumper ants take mental snapshots of the terrain as they move around. This allows the ants, the team notes in their paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, to find their way home using landmark identification.