Wittlinger and colleagues (2007) experimentally manipulated the length of the legs of desert ants (Cataglyphis bicolor), shortening some and lengthening others. This was done to test the ants' ability to use stride length to determine

A) the degree to which wind resistance has displaced their travel.
B) the distance they have traveled on their outward route from the nest.
C) the way back to their nest, even if they are experimentally displaced just as they begin their return home.
D) their direction on their outward route from the nest.