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SUBMITTER: Foster JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5312028 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Foster James J JJ El Jundi Basil B Smolka Jochen J Khaldy Lana L Nilsson Dan-Eric DE Byrne Marcus J MJ Dacke Marie M
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences 20170401 1717
Nocturnal dung beetles (<i>Scarabaeus satyrus</i>) are currently the only animals that have been demonstrated to use the Milky Way for reliable orientation. In this study, we tested the capacity of <i>S. satyrus</i> to orient under a range of artificial celestial cues, and compared the properties of these cues with images of the Milky Way simulated for a beetle's visual system. We find that the mechanism that permits accurate stellar orientation under the Milky Way is based on an intensity compa ...[more]