Figure 8.

Example paths of ants on the release platform (left column) and after leaving the platform at increasing scales from second to fourth column. Nest direction is indicated by dashed arrows. Red, green and blue colours label ant identity from left to right. Note that the platform paths in the second column are not always contiguous with the GPS paths, because ants often spend some time underneath the platform after moving over its edge. Top row shows three examples each of full-vector (FV) ants, whereas second and bottom row shows three examples each of zero-vector (ZV) ants. Note that all ants, except one (blue path in second row), irrespective of their status and their initial paths on the platform, eventually find their way home (open circles in fourth column panels).