The night-time temporal window of locomotor activity in the Namib Desert long-distance wandering spider, Leucorchestris arenicola

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 192, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 365-372

  Nørgaard, Thomas ^a   Henschel, Joh R ^b   Wehner, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Gobabeb Training and Research Centre Walvis Bay   (Namibia)

Author keywords

Arachnidae; Homing; Locomotor activity; Navigation; Path integration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; DESERT CLIMATE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOON; NAMIBIA; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DARKNESS; DESERT CLIMATE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOON; NAMIBIA; ORIENTATION; SPIDERS;

EID: 33644856967     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-005-0072-7     Document Type: Article

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