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There comes a time in a desert ant's life when a piece of food is too large to ignore, but too heavy to lift, and the only way to get it home is to adopt a new style of walking. The long-legged and speedy Cataglyphis fortis normally covers ground with a three-legged stride that moves two legs forwards on one side, and one on the other. For the next step, the insect mirrors the move with other three legs. But recordings of ants in the Tunisian desert reveal that when faced with oversized lumps of food times their own weight, the forward 'tripod' walking style is . Unable to lift the morsels in their mandibles, the ants drag the food backwards instead, moving all six legs independently. 'This is the first time we have this in any ants,' said lead author Sarah Pfeffer at the University of Ulm in Germany. The ants' long legs already help keep their bodies away from the scorching desert floor and enable them to speed around at up to cm per second. 'Think of Usain Bolt, who has very long legs to body size. The desert floor is also very hot, so the away their bodies are from the surface, the better,' said co-author Matthias Wittlinger. The ants have also evolved to function at body temperatures of °C in a desert where temperatures can soar to °C. 'They're basically just trying to get out of the heat,' he added.
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