The desert ant's navigational toolkit: Procedural rather than positional knowledge

Navigation, Journal of the Institute of Navigation

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 101-114

  Wehner, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NAVIGATION;

AUSTRALIA; CLUTTERED ENVIRONMENTS; NORTH AFRICA; PATH INTEGRATION; PATH INTEGRATORS; SURVEY MAP; TWO-COMPONENT;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 62349095848     PISSN: 00281522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-4296.2008.tb00421.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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