Path integration provides a scaffold for landmark learning in desert ants

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 1368-1371

  Müller, Martin ^a   Wehner, Rüdiger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; DESERT CLIMATE; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; ROTATION;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CUES; DESERT CLIMATE; LEARNING; ORIENTATION; ROTATION;

APOCRITA; APOIDEA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; OCYMYRMEX;

EID: 77955493117     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.06.035     Document Type: Article

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