Comment Re:Experimental set-up raises a few questions (Score 1) 162
Well, that might be a good explanation for the reason the short legged ants failed to arrive home. However, it doesn't explain why the artificially leg lengthened ants overshot their nest. I mean, if it were you or me, we would have seen our home and stopped, so the ants must really heavily rely on step counting.
But the ants were moved so that they would never actually reach there home. So it makes perfect sence that if the Ant got to where he thought the nest was, and it wasn't there he might carry on further. Thus explaining why he overshot. The stilts being irrelevant.