The ant is a weak little creature that the Creator has blessed with great perfections. Every day these tiny insects travel far from their nests in search of food.
When ants find a small or insignificant piece of food, such as a "seed or bread," they hold it firmly in their jaws and carry it upstairs to their home, but when a large food such as a roast is eaten If they find a piece of corn or sorghum, then they do not pick it up and move forward, but they carry it and walk backwards and deliver the food to their home.
Scientists say that in order for an insect to move forward, it needs to look at its destination and move forward by recognizing the correct location, but modern research has revealed that ants do not just look ahead. They find their way home using a variety of different and varied methods, such as when an ant crawls on an object and moves backwards. Identify your location through "These are beautiful ants' behaviors and behavioral experiences," says Pauline Fleischmann, a researcher who studies ant migration. "If you observe how ants move in their nests, Skills can be very influential. "
Spanish desert ants (Cataglyphis velox) ants use a special strategy to move forward called "path integration". Ants can sense their movements and turns, even knowing how far they are from their nest. These ants can also know their direction through the angles of the sun, as well as they return to their home by looking at the surrounding landscape and using their various signs.
Now the question is, how do these ants recognize their path when they are dragging their food? Sometimes ants drop their food and look at the path and pick up the food back, a process called "peeking." Sebastian Schwartz says
"Are we trying to figure out if an ant can recognize anything through its vision when it moves backwards?"
Schwarz's team selected ants that had already reached the feeder from their nest (meaning they already had information on the route from home to the feeder). When the ants began to drag food Replaced the ants' path with black plastic bags when the ants encountered such new markings on the eight-meter-long path between the nest and the feeder. When the ants reached 3.2 meters, the ants peeked at the food. Lia and tried to get information about the route but under normal circumstances ants peep after 6 meters. These observations show that ants can find their way in dragging food and also know when to peek. As the scene changed, some ants lost their way and wandered off, but some ants managed to reach their nests using their memories and angles of the sun in this changed scene.
Compared to humans, ants have a wider viewing angle. Ants have a point of view of about 360 degrees, while humans can only see one-third of it. Ants use this vision to gather information about the surrounding landscapes. When they leave their home, they look at the landscapes around them and move forward so that they can use their broad vision to return to these landscapes. Reach the nest. The researchers then developed a model that analyzed the conditions that ants use when returning. This model is very interesting but more research is needed on this topic. In future research, some ants' eyes will be covered with paint to find out how much their visual strategy can change!
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