The ant odometer: Stepping on stilts and stumps

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5782, 2006, Pages 1965-1967

  Wittlinger, Matthias ^a   Wehner, Rüdiger ^b   Wolf, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION; WALKING AIDS;

CATAGLYPHIS; DESERT ANTS;

ANIMAL CELL CULTURE;

ANT; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

ANT; ARTICLE; CATAGLYPHIS; DESERT; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FORAGING; HABITAT STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WALKING;

ANIMALS; ANTS; CUES; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; EXTREMITIES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LOCOMOTION;

ANIMALIA; CATAGLYPHIS; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 33745618678     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1126912     Document Type: Article

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