Landmark memories are more robust when acquired at the nest site than en route: Experiments in desert ants

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 127-130

  Bisch Knaden, Sonja ^a   Wehner, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; NAVIGATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORAGING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANIMALIA; CATAGLYPHIS; CATAGLYPHIS FORTIS; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 0037359377     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-003-0405-8     Document Type: Article

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