Thanks to feel more able to smell at a desert ants in Tusinia use information scent to create images of the surrounding environment.

Detailed desert Cataglyphis fortis. Photo: sciencecentric.com.

Pigeons, rats and people can feel more at odor, but ever the scientific community has discovered that animals have the ability to use smell to determine the direction.

Dr. Markus Knaden Dr. Kathrin Steck and Professor Bill Hansson Institute of Chemical Ecology Max-Planck, German track desert ants Cataglyphis fortis in Tusinia to learn behaviors determine their orientation. Each day they leave the remote to 100 m to forage. When finding food, the comments back. What makes the three scientists surprised that they determine the direction is correct when returning. The desert is flat and almost not have anything to mark the location, determine the way work is extremely difficult for all animals.

The scientific community has long known that use of detailed visual information to determine the complex directions. Song three German researchers discovered a more interesting behavior. They put four different types of odor in positions A, B, C and D around the entrance is difficult to see one of your comments.

After several days groups provide some expert comments to a child far away, but they correctly identify the entrance.

In those days, the team located the smell of the island. Immediately flood comments proved confusing and can not determine the direction. This shows that they determine the direction by the odor memory location.

A more interesting finding is that ants only have a beard can not find the smell if two or more co-exist in the surrounding environment. Thus we can deduce they need the beard to determine the exact directions. Whiskers can sense each flavor in a different direction in the same time. Thanks to the ability that he can visualize detailed surroundings through smell.

“It seems harsh conditions in the desert has created the ability to locate the odor in comments,” Dr Knaden comment.