Diurnal and nocturnal African dung beetles use celestial cues, such as the sun, the moon,
and the polarization pattern, to roll dung balls along straight paths across the savanna …

Distant and predictable features in the environment make ideal compass cues to allow
movement along a straight path. Ball-rolling dung beetles use a wide range of different …

South African ball-rolling dung beetles exhibit a unique orientation behavior to avoid
competition for food: after forming a piece of dung into a ball, they efficiently escape with it …

Upon locating a suitable dung pile, ball-rolling dung beetles shape a piece of dung into a
ball and roll it away in a straight line. This guarantees that they will not return to the dung …

Animals relying on a celestial compass for spatial orientation may use the position of the
sun, the chromatic or intensity gradient of the sky, the polarization pattern of the sky, or a …

Many animals rely on a sun compass for spatial orientation and long-range navigation. In
addition to the Sun, insects also exploit the polarization pattern and chromatic gradient of the …

To escape competition at the dung pile, a ball-rolling dung beetle forms a piece of dung into
a ball and rolls it away. To ensure their efficient escape from the dung pile, beetles rely on a …

In order to protect their food from competitors, ball-rolling dung beetles detach a piece of
dung from a pile, shape it into a ball, and roll it away along a straight path [1]. They appear to …

Many insects exploit skylight polarization for visual compass orientation or course control. As
found in crickets, the peripheral visual system (optic lobe) contains three types of …

Many animals use the sun as a reference for spatial orientation [1–3]. In addition to sun
position, the sky provides two other sources of directional information, a color gradient [4] …