LIFE HISTORY OF CARPENTER ANT. 2\J 



2. These ants are capable of tracking themselves and others 

 of the colony, but they are not capable of distinguishing the 

 direction in which the trail was first laid down. 



3. They do not depend entirely on following trails in finding 

 their way, but are guided often by a kind of memory of the 

 location of things, and probably depend as a last resort on a 

 sense of direction. 



4. They ordinarily pay very little attention to trails when 

 traveling from the nest. 



5. They give no evidence, in these operations, of anything akin 

 to reason. 



