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Desert Navigator - The Journey of an Ant (Hardcover)
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Desert Navigator - The Journey of an Ant (Hardcover)
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Winner of the Association of American Publishers PROSE Award for
Excellence in Biological and Life Sciences 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. Cataglyphis desert 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 Cataglyphis navigators 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, Rudiger Wehner
and his collaborators have devised elegant experiments to unmask
how they do it. Through a lively and lucid narrative, Desert
Navigator offers 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's
magnetic field, wind direction, a step counter, and panoramic
"snapshots" 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. Desert Navigator brings
to light the marvelous capacity and complexity found in these
remarkable insects and shows us how mini brains can solve mega
tasks.
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