LocustHitsandMisses.avi

A paper by Jeremy Niven and colleagues in the Jan. 12, 2010 issue of Current Biology provides evidence for the involvement of visual information in controlling insect forelimb movement in gap crossing. This video shows that, when a desert locust walks along a horizontal ladder, it makes directed movements to specific rungs in the absence of any previous contact, revealing a role for visual information in the placement of their front legs. (Video courtesy Dr. Jeremy Niven, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama.)

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Science & Technology

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• locust
• insect walking
• visual information
• limb placement