Do desert ants smell the scenery in stereo?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 939-945

  Steck, Kathrin ^a   Knaden, Markus ^a   Hansson, Bill S ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cataglyphis fortis; desert ant; insect; landmark; navigation; olfaction; stereo smell

Indexed keywords

ANT; ODOR; OLFACTORY CUE; ORIENTATION BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; CATAGLYPHIS FORTIS; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 77949487607     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.01.011     Document Type: Article

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