Ants Have Dual Navigation Systems (IMAGE)

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Ants Have Dual Navigation Systems

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<i>Cataglyphis bicolor</i> with eyes ventrally blindfolded.. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Sept. 9, 2016, issue of <i>Science</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by S.E. Pfeffer at Ulm University in Ulm, Germany and colleagues was titled, "Optic flow odometry operates independently of stride integration in carried ants."

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Matthias Wittlinger

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