Gluing pig bristles to ant legs to lengthen their strides or trimming the insects’ legs to shorten their steps distorts their judgments of distance, say researchers.
ANT ON STILTS. A desert ant with pig bristles glued to its legs (right) seems to adapt quickly to its new height as it looms tall over a normal ant of the same species.
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