Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP200102337

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP200102337

Funding Status
Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Becoming expert navigators with tiny brains: Learning in desert ants. Desert ants with tiny brains learn to use their surrounding visual landscape to navigate. This project investigates in detail how they do that in a few carefully orchestrated trips around their nest called learning walks. Desert ants are known now to use magnetic cues to orient during their learning walks. The project also probes the role that magnetic cues play in the ants’ learning, as well as the sensory basis of the perception of magnetic cues. Geomagnetic cues in the area of the nest will be artificially manipulated to test how ants use this cue. Probing the use of magnetic cues has potential benefits for projects of artificial autonomous navigation in situations when visual cues are unavailable, such as exploring a deep mine.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 18-05-2020

End Date: 17-05-2024

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $440,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Zoology | Animal Behaviour | Animal Neurobiology |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences

Other Keywords

Animal Behaviour | Animal Neurobiology | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Zoology

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