To go get food, do her shopping, she ventures far from her anthill into the hot sands of the Sahara where, one suspects, landmarks are rare.
So as not to be too confused, she locates herself in the sun, or by smell, but entomologists have discovered that she has another technique for finding her way and returning to the nest quickly in the stifling heat.
In order to remember the distance she has traveled from her home, she counts her steps, the desert ant! As she walks, she goes like this “one, two, three, four”. No just kidding. But she’s got in her nervous system a…
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