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Smells like home: Desert ants, Cataglyphis fortis, use olfactory landmarks to pinpoint the nest
BACKGROUND: Cataglyphis fortis ants forage individually for dead arthropods in the inhospitable salt-pans of Tunisia. Locating the inconspicuous nest after a foraging run of more than 100 meters demands a remarkable orientation capability. As a result of high temperatures and the unpredictable distr...
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BioMed Central
2009
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2651142/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19250516 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-6-5 |