{"id":2182,"date":"2020-01-11T23:41:50","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T13:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognav.net\/?p=2182"},"modified":"2020-01-12T11:57:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T01:57:18","slug":"how-an-ant-navigates-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=2182","title":{"rendered":"How an ant navigates the desert?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">R\u00fcdiger Wehner.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674045880\"><strong>Desert Navigator: The Journey of an Ant<\/strong> <\/a>[M].\u00a0Harvard University Press, 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">About the Book<\/p>\n<p class=\"keynote\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>&#8220;A world-renowned researcher of animal behavior reveals the extraordinary orienteering skills of desert ants, offering a thrilling account of the sophisticated ways insects function in their natural environments.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/images\/jackets\/9780674045880-lg.jpg\" width=\"555\" height=\"680\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>Cataglyphis<\/i>\u00a0desert ants are agile ultrarunners who can tolerate near-lethal temperatures when they forage in the hot midday sun. But it is their remarkable navigational abilities that make these ants so fascinating to study. Whether in the Sahara or its ecological equivalents in the Namib Desert and Australian Outback, the\u00a0<i>Cataglyphis<\/i>\u00a0navigators can set out foraging across vast expanses of desert terrain in search of prey, and then find the shortest way home. For almost half a century,\u00a0<b>R\u00fcdiger Wehner<\/b>\u00a0and his collaborators have devised elegant experiments to unmask how they do it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Through a lively and lucid narrative,\u00a0<i>Desert Navigator<\/i>\u00a0offers a firsthand look at the extraordinary navigational skills of these charismatic desert dwellers and the experiments that revealed how they strategize and solve complex problems. Wehner and his team discovered that these insect navigators use visual cues in the sky that humans are unable to see, the Earth\u2019s magnetic field, wind direction, a step counter, and panoramic \u201csnapshots\u201d of landmarks, among other resources. The ants combine all of this information to steer an optimal course. At any given time during their long journey, they know exactly where to go. It is no wonder these nimble and versatile creatures have become models in the study of animal navigation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>Desert Navigator<\/i>\u00a0brings to light the marvelous capacity and complexity found in these remarkable insects and shows us how mini brains can solve mega tasks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Further info on Nature. &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-03956-9?utm_source=Nature+Briefing&amp;utm_campaign=a1126fff90-briefing-dy-20200110&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c9dfd39373-a1126fff90-42942683\">Navigational secrets of the desert ant:<\/a> A sumptuous book explores how the insect finds its way. By William A. Foster<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R\u00fcdiger Wehner.\u00a0Desert Navigator: The Journey of an Ant [M].\u00a0Harvard University Press, 2020. About the Book &#8220;A world-renowned researcher of animal behavior reveals the extraordinary orienteering skills of desert ants, offering a thrilling account of the sophisticated ways insects function in their natural environments. 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