https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9436-ants-use-pedometers-to-find-home/
Ants use pedometers to find home. Desert ants have an internal system - like a pedometer - that keeps track of how many steps they take, according to a new study. The insects seem to rely on

https://www.livescience.com/871-ants-marching-count-steps.html
Other studies have shown that once ants find a good source of food, they teach other ants how to find it. The ant "pedometer" technique was first proposed in 1904, but it remained untested until now.

https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/06/01/120587095/ants-that-count
The "Pedometer Effect" The regular ants walked right to the nest and went inside. The ants on stilts walked right past the nest, stopped and looked around for their home.

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/210/2/ii/17101/PEDOMETER-HELPS-ANTS-GET-HOME
Ants use path integration to navigate: to get back home, they keep track of their travel direction, by using a celestial compass, and their travel distance. Until now, scientists were less clear about how ants measured distance, strongly suspecting that they use an internal pedometer. This takes into account an ant's stride length and stride

https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/210/2/198/17104/The-desert-ant-odometer-a-stride-integrator-that
SUMMARY. Desert ants, Cataglyphis, use path integration as a major means of navigation. Path integration requires measurement of two parameters, namely,direction and distance of travel. Directional information is provided by a celestial compass, whereas distance measurement is accomplished by a stride integrator, or pedometer. Here we examine the recently demonstrated pedometer function in

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1126912
The ants were trained to walk from their nest entrance to a feeder, over a distance of 10 m and in a linear alloy channel (Fig. 1, top).After at least 1 day of training, the animals were caught at the feeding site and transferred to a test channel, aligned parallel to the training channel (Fig. 1, bottom).Once transferred into this test channel, the ants performed their homebound runs, and we

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/ants-walk-using-internal-distance-clock-study-1.593350
As expected, manipulating the length of legs scrambled the ants' pedometer. Ants walking on stilts walked 10.55 metres to return to the starting point, and ants with shortened legs took 10.25 metres.

https://www.science.org/content/article/ants-stilts
The ants on stilts went about 5 meters too far before stopping to search for the nest, whereas the stumpy ants stopped about 5 meters too short, the team reports 29 June in Science. (Control ants got back home just fine.) After the modified ants were returned to the nest, they were able to go out and get back home just as accurately as normal

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ants-on-stilts/
The ants on stilts had a lengthened stride and marched past their goal, whereas the stump-legged ants stopped short of their goal, suggesting that stride length indeed serves as an ant pedometer

https://www.snexplores.org/article/ants-stilts
A normal ant and an ant with stilts. It appeared, the scientists say, that the ants were using the number of steps they took, not the actual distance traveled, to gauge how far they had gone. After a few days with their new legs, however, the ants seemed to reset their pedometers.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19125595-300-an-ant-remembers-every-step-it-takes/
An ant remembers every step it takes. NEXT time you notice an ant plodding tirelessly along, consider this. In that tiny brain is a pedometer that keeps track of how many steps it takes. The

https://phys.org/news/2006-07-scientists-ants-internal-pedometer.html
"These results support the hypothesis that desert ants use a pedometer for distance measurement, or a step integrator (loosely speaking, a step counter, although the ants most probably do not

https://www.nature.com/articles/35081069
Figure 1: The ant's odometer does not record the distance actually travelled along an uphill-downhill path but rather the horizontal projection of that path (that is, the ground distance).

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/stilts-ants-make-case-pedometer
Stilts for ants make case for pedometer. By Susan Milius. July 18, 2006 at 10:07 am. Gluing pig bristles to ant legs to lengthen their strides or trimming the insects' legs to shorten their

https://www.openculture.com/2011/12/can_ants_count_research_suggests_they_have_built-in_pedometers.html
By count­ing steps, appar­ent­ly. As Nation­al Pub­lic Radio sci­ence cor­re­spon­dent Robert Krul­wich explains in this engag­ing lit­tle car­toon, a group of Ger­man and Swiss sci­en­tists have dis­cov­ered that by manip­u­lat­ing the stride of the ants halfway through their trip-by either length­en­ing or short­en

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17210957/
Abstract. Desert ants, Cataglyphis, use path integration as a major means of navigation. Path integration requires measurement of two parameters, namely, direction and distance of travel. Directional information is provided by a celestial compass, whereas distance measurement is accomplished by a stride integrator, or pedometer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataglyphis_fortis
The ant appears to use an internal pedometer to count its steps in a harsh environment where odors quickly vanish, enabling it to "count back" to its nest. When stilts were glued on to the ants legs, they overshot the distance of their nests, while ants with cut legs traveled short of their nest. It's suspected that while the ants unlikely have

https://support.smartlab.org/en/smartlab-smartlab-step-zaehler-with-data-transmission-bluetooth-smart-ant/
smartLAB -. smartLAB pedometer with data transfer Bluetooth Smart / ANT+. Here you will find all important information about the smartLAB pedometers with Bluetooth and ANT+.

https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_entopubs/9/
Comparative analyses revealed that several closely related fire ant species also possess long centromeres. Conclusions: Our results are consistent with a model of simple runaway centromere expansion due to centromere drive. We suggest expanded centromeres may be more prevalent in hymenopteran insects, which use haplodiploid sex determination

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