Repeated training does not improve the path integrator in desert ants

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 391-402

  Merkle, Tobias ^a,b   Wehner, Rüdiger ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cataglyphis; Foraging; Homing; Path integration; Repeated training

Indexed keywords

ANT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; FEEDING GROUND; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; TRAINING;

ANIMALIA; CATAGLYPHIS; CATAGLYPHIS FORTIS; FORMICIDAE;

EID: 60049087082     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-008-0673-6     Document Type: Article

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