The use of path integration to guide route learning in ants

Nature

Volumn 399, Issue 6738, 1999, Pages 769-772

  Schatz, B ^a   Chameron, S ^b   Beugnon, G ^b   Collett, T S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; LEARNING; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; CATAGLYPHIS CURSOR; FORMICIDAE; INSECTA;

EID: 0033600231     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/21625     Document Type: Article

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