Insect navigation: measuring travel distance across ground and through air.
Walking insects probably monitor leg movements to estimate how far they travel, whereas flying insects monitor optic flow.
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Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.
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