Ant navigation: One-way routes rather than maps

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 75-79

  Wehner, Rüdiger ^a   Boyer, Martin ^a   Loertscher, Florian ^a   Sommer, Stefan ^a   Menzi, Ursula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; DEPTH PERCEPTION; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; CUES; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; SPACE PERCEPTION; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; APINAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MELOPHORUS BAGOTI;

EID: 30044432360     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.11.035     Document Type: Article

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