Landmarks or panoramas: What do navigating ants attend to for guidance?

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wystrach, Antoine ^a,b   Beugnon, Guy ^b   Cheng, Ken ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Ant; Insect navigation; Landmark; Panoramic views; Route learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; MELOPHORUS BAGOTI; PRIMATES;

EID: 80052033544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-8-21     Document Type: Article

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