How ants find their way back home
A research team has recently shown that ants do not navigate using only their surroundings. When walking forwards, ants use a strategy called "Path integration" where they remember the feeling of twists and turns they took as well as the number of steps they are from the nest. While navigating backwards, they would drop their food and turn to look for familiar landmarks, a behavior called peeking.
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