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Desert Ants Learn Vibration and Magnetic Landmarks
The desert ants Cataglyphis navigate not only by path integration but also by using visual and olfactory landmarks to pinpoint the nest entrance. Here we show that Cataglyphis noda can additionally use magnetic and vibrational landmarks as nest-defining cues. The magnetic field may typically provide...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3296771/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22412989 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033117 |
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author | Buehlmann, Cornelia Hansson, Bill S. Knaden, Markus |
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description | The desert ants Cataglyphis navigate not only by path integration but also by using visual and olfactory landmarks to pinpoint the nest entrance. Here we show that Cataglyphis noda can additionally use magnetic and vibrational landmarks as nest-defining cues. The magnetic field may typically provide directional rather than positional information, and vibrational signals so far have been shown to be involved in social behavior. Thus it remains questionable if magnetic and vibration landmarks are usually provided by the ants' habitat as nest-defining cues. However, our results point to the flexibility of the ants' navigational system, which even makes use of cues that are probably most often sensed in a different context. |
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spelling | pubmed-32967712012-03-12 Desert Ants Learn Vibration and Magnetic Landmarks Buehlmann, Cornelia Hansson, Bill S. Knaden, Markus PLoS One Research Article The desert ants Cataglyphis navigate not only by path integration but also by using visual and olfactory landmarks to pinpoint the nest entrance. Here we show that Cataglyphis noda can additionally use magnetic and vibrational landmarks as nest-defining cues. The magnetic field may typically provide directional rather than positional information, and vibrational signals so far have been shown to be involved in social behavior. Thus it remains questionable if magnetic and vibration landmarks are usually provided by the ants' habitat as nest-defining cues. However, our results point to the flexibility of the ants' navigational system, which even makes use of cues that are probably most often sensed in a different context. Public Library of Science 2012-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3296771/ /pubmed/22412989 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033117 Text en Buehlmann et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Buehlmann, Cornelia Hansson, Bill S. Knaden, Markus Desert Ants Learn Vibration and Magnetic Landmarks |
title | Desert Ants Learn Vibration and Magnetic Landmarks |
title_full | Desert Ants Learn Vibration and Magnetic Landmarks |
title_fullStr | Desert Ants Learn Vibration and Magnetic Landmarks |
title_full_unstemmed | Desert Ants Learn Vibration and Magnetic Landmarks |
title_short | Desert Ants Learn Vibration and Magnetic Landmarks |
title_sort | desert ants learn vibration and magnetic landmarks |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3296771/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22412989 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033117 |
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