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Abstract: Pit building antlions Euroleon nostras have been submitted to artifcial cues in order to delineate their faculty to localize a prey. Series of propagating pulses in sand have been created from an extended source made of 10 piezoelectric transducers equally spaced on a line and located at a large distance from the pit. The envelope of each pulse encompasses six oscillations at a carrier frequency of 1250 Hz and up to eight oscillations at 1666 Hz. In one set of experiments, the frst wave front is followed by similar wave fronts and the antlions respond to the cue by throwing sand in the opposite direction of the wave front propagation direction. In another set of experiments, the frst wave front is randomly spatially structured while the propagation of the wave fronts inside the envelope of the pulse are not. In that case, the antlions respond less to the cue by throwing sand, and when they do, their sand throwing is more randomly distributed in direction. The fnding shows that the localization of vibration signal by antlions are based on the equivalent for hearing animals of interaural time diference in which the onset has more signifcance than the interaural phase diference.
Keywords: Euroleon nostras, localization, phase time diference, onset time diference, sand-borne vibrations
Published in DKUM: 18.04.2024; Views: 150; Downloads: 5
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