Vector navigation in desert ants, Cataglyphis fortis: Celestial compass cues are essential for the proper use of distance information

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 468-471

  Sommer, Stefan ^a   Wehner, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; HOMING BEHAVIOR; NAVIGATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL ATHERECTOMY; FORAGING; INFORMATION; NONHUMAN; TRAVEL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANTS; DESERT CLIMATE; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; TUNISIA;

ANIMALIA; CATAGLYPHIS FORTIS; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 28344442025     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-005-0020-y     Document Type: Article

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