Ants don’t need compasses
Ants are outstanding navigators that keep a straight path, plot the sun’s position and memorize their environment to guide their activities. Ants get their bearings correct regardless of the body’s direction and can find their way home under any condition. Ants may have tiny brains but their cognitive skills are outstanding in circumnavigating their trails using celestial cues. They use many aptitudes of the brain instantaneously, indicating that the brain of insects is more multifaceted than previously believed. Ants brains are nearly 10-15 percent of the insect’s total mass while that we are about 2 percent compared to the body size. Ants use celestial cues maintain their bearing even if they are walking backward. Ants can dissociate their direction of travel from their body orientation or maintain a direct path while their body is at a different angle.
gogreenpestcontrol.ca Ladner Tsawwassen Delta B.C. Bilesky
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ants-dont-need-compasses-randy-bilesky?published=t
http://www.delta-optimist.com/opinion/blogs/blog-ants-don-t-need-compasses-1.8498281
