Ant navigation: Resetting the path integrator

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 26-31

  Knaden, Markus ^a   Wehner, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cataglyphis fortis; Orientation; Path integration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DESERT CLIMATE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TUNISIA;

ANIMALS; ANTS; CUES; DESERT CLIMATE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; ORIENTATION; TUNISIA;

CATAGLYPHIS FORTIS; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 31544433686     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.01976     Document Type: Article

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