Ants in rectangular arenas: A support for the global matching theory

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 388-390

  Wystrach, Antoine ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Ant navigation; Geometry; Global matching; Mismatch tolerance threshold; Spatial cognition

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77951260090     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.2.5.8717     Document Type: Note

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