Sweden, Feb. 2 -- Project Id: 124269
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Insights into the dung beetle's compass
The dung beetle is one of the many animals that use a primitive form of celestial navigation to find their way home. It uses a snapshot method for orientation, which eliminates the need to rely on long processes to retrieve information. The EU-funded UltimateCOMPASS project aims to unearth the sensory and neural processes of the newly discovered snapshot compass. Drawing upon biology, bioinformatics and mathematics, the project will obtain the first ever brain recordings from the compass of the large dung beetle, paving the way for the formation of core computational algorithms of this system. The project's work will have an impa...