Surface structure helps desert ants return to known feeding sites

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 27-28

  Merkle, Tobias ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Desert ants; Feeding site; Foraging behavior; Landmarks; Surface structure; Training

Indexed keywords

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EID: 60849130737     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.2.1.7392     Document Type: Article

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