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Finding could expand research on vision in humans and autonomous vehicle development.
Urban fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster, live in a rich visual environment and can stabilize the background surrounding the objects around which they need to orient themselves.
In the desert, what few objects Mojave fruit flies encounter are likely to be the ones they are interested in, such as cactuses.
Desert flies ignored background and steered to follow vertical bar, centering it on their visual midline.
Desert fruit fly visual navigation more closely resembles that of humans than the urban fruit fly does.
Fruit flies are often used in experiments probing visual perception and processing.
The finding that not all species of fruit fly navigate their environment the same way expands the possibilities for what scientists can learn.
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