... while studying tethered insects, but potential limitations and confounds introduced by tethering motivates the development of alternative untethered solutions. In this paper, we validate the use of a motion compensator (or ‘treadmill’) to study visually driven behaviour of freely moving wood ants...

... lundii ) have an innate preference for turning counter-clockwise (left) when external cues are precluded. We demonstrated this by allowing individual ants to run freely on the water surface of a newly developed treadmill. The surface tension supported medium-sized workers but effectively prevented ants...

.... , Brusamolin , L. , Zamparo , P. and McKee , T. ( 2003 ). A feedback-controlled treadmill (treadmill-on-demand) and the spontaneous speed of walking and running in humans . J. Appl. Physiol.   95 , 838 - 843 . 10.1152/japplphysiol.00128.2003 Newmark , W. D. and Rickart , E...

...N. M. HAMILTON; D. F. HOULIHAN Carcinus maenas (L.) were exercised using a novel design of aquatic treadmill respirometer. Tethered exercise was performed in sea water at 5.8 m min −1 for 5min. The rate of oxygen consumption and the heart and scaphognathite beat rates increased at the onset...