Ants Count Their Way Home
by Richard Harris, NPRJuly 3, 2006
Desert ants are very good at finding their way home. How they do that has been a mystery, until now. A clever experiment in Germany finds that these ants get home by counting their steps. Ants with shortened legs stopped short of their nests, while ants outfitted with stilts walked too far.
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