Evolutionary history of the Falklands wolf

several open questions. Most pertinently: how do ants encode skyline information? And, how do ants derive a movement direction from the comparison of their current skyline view and their remembered view? Recent experiments, also with M. bagoti [10], have addressed the first question. By masking different portions of the visual panorama, it was possible to show that being able to view prominent skyline features at high retinal elevations was neither necessary nor sufficient for successful orientation. This suggests that M. bagoti derive information from a broad range of azimuthal directions rather than a small set of the most prominent features.