Do leafcutter ants, Atta colombica, orient their path-integrated home vector with a magnetic compass?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1273-1281

  Riveros, A J ^a,b   Srygley, R B ^a,c  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atta colombica; dead reckoning; directional orientation; geocentric cues; homing; Hymenoptera; leafcutter ant; path integration; spatial orientation

Indexed keywords

ANT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOMING BEHAVIOR; LIGHT; MAGNETIC FIELD; PATH ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ANIMALIA; ATTA COLUMBICA; FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 40849140750     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.09.030     Document Type: Article

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