Use of local cues in the night-time navigation of the wandering desert spider Leucorchestris arenicola (Araneae, Sparassidae)

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

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 217-222

  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

External cues; Homing; Landmarks; Olfaction; Sparassidae

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; MALE; ODOR; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; CUES; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MALE; ORIENTATION; SMELL; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPIDERS;

EID: 33846632264     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-006-0178-6     Document Type: Article

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