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Dec 01, 1872 Bex, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland Died on 20 Nov 1940 (aged 67)
Swiss entomologist (1872-1940)
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About Felix Santschi
- Felix Santschi (1 December 1872 – 20 November 1940) was a Swiss entomologist known for discovering that ants use the sun as a compass and for describing about 2000 taxa of ants.Santschi is known for his pioneering work on the navigational abilities of ants.
- In one experiment, he investigated the way harvester ants used the sky to navigate.
- He found that as long as even a small patch of sky was visible, the ants could return directly to the nest after gathering food.
- However, when the sky was completely hidden, they lost their sense of direction and began moving haphazardly.
- Some seventy years later it was shown that ants are guided by the polarization of light.
