Nest-mark orientation versus vector navigation in desert ants

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 211, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1868-1873

  Bregy, Patrick ^a,b   Sommer, Stefan ^a   Wehner, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Beacon; Cataglyphis; Home vector; Landmark; Nest search; Path integration

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; NESTING; ORIENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; TUNISIA;

ANIMALS; ANTS; HOMING BEHAVIOR; NESTING BEHAVIOR; ORIENTATION; TUNISIA;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA; CATAGLYPHIS; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA;

EID: 47749141111     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.018036     Document Type: Article

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