Local and global vectors in desert ant navigation

Nature

Volumn 394, Issue 6690, 1998, Pages 269-272

  Collett, M ^a   Collett, T S ^b   Bisch, S ^c   Wehner, R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; FORAGING; NAVIGATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAVEL;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0032537826     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/28378     Document Type: Article

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