Movie 3.

An example cutting a thin ®Parafilm pseudoleaf showing behavioural flexibility and the relevance of sensory information obtained from the position of the leaf edge to control the shape of the fragment to be cut after contact with the perpendicular leaf edge, the ant changed the direction of the cut and continued along a straight line.

Two feedback mechanisms involved in the control of leaf fragment size in leaf-cutting ants

Daniela Römer, Rebecca Exl, and Flavio Roces

Journal of Experimental Biology 2023. 226:None-None; doi: 10.1242/jeb.244246